Actionable alerting
Observability & reliability
Actionable alerting
An actionable alert needs a human response that reduces user harm. Alert on symptoms that users feel, such as a fast SLO burn rate, and not on every cause. Review noisy alerts and assign ownership.
Resources
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SRE workbook: alerting on SLOsBook · Google · opens in a new tabSRE book: monitoring distributed systemsBook · Google · opens in a new tabMy philosophy on alertingArticle · Rob Ewaschuk · opens in a new tabPrometheus documentationDocumentation · CNCF Prometheus project · opens in a new tabSite Reliability Engineering (the Google SRE book)Book · Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy · Amazon affiliate link, opens Amazon in a new tabcharity.wtfBlog · Charity Majors · opens in a new tabObservability EngineeringBook · Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, George Miranda · Amazon affiliate link, opens Amazon in a new tab