Optimizing your alerts to reduce Alert Noise
Reducing alert fatigue starts from your monitoring platform - setting the right thresholds to trigger alerts and understanding which of these are essential to be sent into your on-call platform is a start. This post outlines some of the best practices that help you reduce alert noise and improve your on-call experience. The word noise implies something unpleasant and unwanted. You combine that with on-call and it adds a factor of annoyance to the already overwhelming process.