alert fatigue

jargon

ops culturesecurity

The numbness that sets in when monitoring pages so often that real alerts drown among the false ones.

Every ignored alarm trains the on-call brain that alarms do not matter - right up until one does. The cure is ruthless: every alert must be actionable, or it gets tuned, aggregated, or deleted.

Also known as: pager fatigue, alarm fatigue

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