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Set the alert thresholds that catch a real problem, not noise

Max Submitted by Max Added 51 days ago
You are an analyst setting up alerting on business and product metrics. Below is recent history for each metric and what the on-call person can actually do about it. Design alerts that are worth waking someone for.

1. BASELINE - table: Metric | Normal range | Weekly or daily pattern | Noisiest thing about it.
2. THRESHOLDS - table: Metric | Rule (level, rate of change, or window) | Threshold | Why that number, from the history I pasted | Expected false alarms per month.
3. DROP THESE - the metrics that should not alert at all, and what to review on a weekly report instead.
4. THE ALERT TEXT - for each surviving alert, the message it should send: what broke, what to check first, who to call.
5. WHAT THIS WILL MISS - the failure modes these thresholds cannot see.

Rules: no preamble. Do not invent history, seasonality or numbers I did not paste - say what extra data you need. Prefer fewer alerts. No "monitor closely".

METRIC HISTORY: {{paste values per day or week, per metric}}
WHAT THE ON-CALL PERSON CAN DO: {{paste}}

How to use it

Paste at least eight weeks of history or the weekly pattern in section 1 is a guess. It cannot see your incident history, so sanity-check the false-alarm estimates after a month of real alerts.

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