Alert-Driven Monitoring

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Infrastructure monitoring should prioritize alerts, not dashboards, as alerts are the backbone of operations.
To avoid a noisy, untrustworthy system, start alert setup by defining service failure behaviors rather than just setting thresholds on existing metrics.
Alert fatigue arises from conservative setup leading to false alarms, causing teams to ignore alerts, similar to the 'boy who cried wolf' scenario.
Mitigate alert fatigue with a zero-tolerance policy for false alarms, ensuring all alerts are actionable, and through continual process improvements.
Implement iterative hardening with weekly incident reviews, frequent pruning of false alerts, and root cause analyses to refine alert rules over time.

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