Gambit Updates
Monitoring that matters: alerts, noise, and ownership
The difference between “we have monitoring” and “we prevent outages”: thresholds, routing, and on-call ownership.
Monitoring that matters
Monitoring fails when it creates noise.
Start with ownership
For each system/service:
- Who gets alerts
- What “good” looks like
- What to do when it’s not good
Prefer symptom-based alerts
- Service down
- High error rate
- Disk full soon
- Backup failed
Avoid alerting on everything “high CPU” unless it correlates to user impact.
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