Alert fatigue

When too many alerts — especially false ones — cause responders to miss or ignore the important ones.

Alert fatigue sets in when responders receive so many alerts — many of them noise or false alarms — that they start tuning them out, risking a missed real incident.

The cures are mostly about precision: confirm failures from multiple regions before paging, use consecutive-failure thresholds, route by severity, and set quiet hours. Fewer, higher-quality alerts keep on-call sustainable.

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