Operations → Observability
Alerting
Notifying humans or systems when monitored signals indicate a problem or risk.
Motivation
Alerting turns important monitoring signals into human attention. It solves the problem of notifying the right people when action is needed.
Mental model
A good alert means something is broken, urgent, and actionable.
Where it fits
Alerting belongs to the Operations track, inside Observability. It connects to nearby concepts through the graph relationships on this page and in the graph explorer.
Common mistakes
- Alerting on every warning.
- Creating alerts without runbooks.
- Waking people up for issues that automatically recover.
Related concepts
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