Observability·Observability essentials

Alerts

Alert on symptoms users feel, not every internal metric.

Intermediate 10 min read Lesson 5 of 150 Challenge included
What you will be able to do
  • Use SLOs.
  • Page only for urgent issues.
  • Include runbook links.

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Alert on symptoms users feel, not every internal metric.

  • Use SLOs.
  • Page only for urgent issues.
  • Include runbook links.
alert.txtText
Alert when error rate > 2% for 5 minutes
Include dashboard and runbook links
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Answer from memory: What should page an on-call engineer?

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