Effective Alerting in Practice

An alerting system, when effectively implemented, is one of the most important parts of any successful operations team. But rapidly evolving software practices are creating new alerting challenges . . . 

Orchestrated container environments, microservices architectures, serverless and cloud-based infrastructures are making traditional alerting practices obsolete.

As your environment grows, how can you ensure alerts are delivered in a timely manner—while avoiding as many false negatives and positives as possible? How can you reduce alert fatigue—and ensure that when pagers go off, there’s a darned good reason? 

In this guide, you’ll learn how to: 

• Apply alerting best practices for dynamic and scaled environments

• Manage multiple alerting sources

• Design and maintain an alerting system useful to your organization and teams