The signal to noise ratio can be frustratingly high for on-call alerts and downright mystifying when joining a new company or rotation. If you treat PagerDuty like the boy who cried wolf you’ve certainly mired in monitoring debt. Monitoring debit is tragically common and with investment mitigatable! Just how much of a risk are false positives? The data shows that a high number of false alerts trains workers to assume most alerts will be false. Repetition of the same alerts causes even greater alert fatigue. For clinicians the likelihood of acknowledging an alert dropped 30% for each reminder. Paige will share the nuts and bolts of how to start auditing your own alerts to begin your journey towards an on-call oasis.
10. Why is it
firing?
A. Batteries are running
low
B. Your roommate burned
toast. Again.
11. Why is it
firing?
A. Batteries are running
low
B. Your roommate burned
toast. Again.
C. You forgot to run the fan
during a steamy shower
12. Why is it
firing?
A. Batteries are running
low
B. Your roommate burned
toast. Again.
C. You forgot to run the fan
during a steamy shower
D. Beatrice, your beloved
cat knocked over a
candle
64. The Other Side
Mass Diameter Gravity
Mercury 0.06 0.38 0.38
Mars 0.11 0.53 0.38
Saturn 95.2 9.4 1.16
65.
66. Upcoming events
10 23 7 26
May May June June
Prometheus
Fundamentals
Workshop SF
Open
Source
Summit
Infobip Shift
(Miami)
Monitorama
67. Resources
How to Pay Down
Monitoring Debt
Sysadvent: A Year In
Review
Increment: On-Call
Issue
On-Call Feels Survey
Yerbo Burnout Index
Quiz
Addressing Burnout Is Key to
Retaining SWE's
My Philosophy On Alerting
Alert Triage Hour of Power
Tackling Alert Fatigue - Catie
McCaffrey Monitorama
When to Alert on What?