Guiding principle

Guiding principle

Guiding principle

Structure your environment first, then set up alerts

Structure your environment first, then set up alerts

Structure your environment first, then set up alerts

Most monitoring tools enable notifications by default, so teams get overwhelmed with irrelevant alerts because the tool doesn't understand their environment.

It seems like the solution is to tune the alerts. The instinct is to start tuning individual alerts. But without first mapping devices to the business services they support, it's hard to build alerts that reflect what actually matters.