Alert Fatigue Is an Organizational Problem
Alert fatigue is often blamed on tooling. Too many alerts. Bad thresholds. Noisy systems. Those things matter, but they are symptoms. Alert fatigue is an organizational problem. Alerts Reflect What the Org Cares About Every alert encodes a value judgment. This matters. This is urgent. Someone should wake up. When everything is urgent, nothing is. Organizations that cannot agree on priorities produce alert storms. The system is only reflecting that confusion. ...