Alerts and notifications
Reducing alert noise
Why noisy alerts get ignored and how to keep yours worth reading.
The fastest way to make alerts useless is to send too many. When every alert might be noise, people stop reading all of them.
Confirm before alerting
Requiring a couple of consecutive failures before alerting filters out brief network blips without meaningfully delaying real incidents.
Silence planned work
Maintenance windows suppress alerts you already expect, so the alerts that do arrive are always worth a look.