Alert Fatigue
Notes from this tech talk by Aditya Mukherjee.
STAT framework for thinking about each alert
- Supported
- Trustworthy
- Do I trust this alert to notify me when a problem happens?
- Will it stay silent if things are ok?
- Will it give me enough info to diagnose problems?
- Actionable
- At most one decision should be required ideally, the decision to whether take an action or not.
- Alerts that are difficult to action become alerts that are ignored. If an alert is painful or annoying to action, you'll feel fatigued next time.
- Should try to avoid stuff like "investigate" etc, make things more optional. Decision trees, interactive tooling etc is much better.
- If it's unclear who should be taking action, the alert is not actionable.
- Triaged