Alert On Symptoms, Not Noise
Differentiate page-worthy symptom alerts from diagnostic alerts that should be tickets or dashboards.
The move: protect the pager like production infrastructure. A strong page has four properties: it represents user impact or imminent user impact, it needs action now, it has an owner, and it gives enough context to start. If any of those are missing, the alert may still be useful, but it probably belongs in a different channel. Symptoms Deserve Urgency Checkout failures, sustained latency SLO burn, and data corruption risk describe service promises breaking. Those conditions justify interrupting someone. Causes Need Routing Pod restarts, CPU, disk growth, or queue depth may explain a symptom or predict one. Route them based…
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