Monitoring and Alerting

Decide what to watch, what to alert on, and how to make sure the right person finds out when things break.

When to use

• Setting up monitoring on a new site or service
• Defining SLOs (service level objectives) and error budgets
• Choosing which alerts page someone vs which go to a quiet channel
• Designing or fixing on-call rotation
• Diagnosing alert fatigue
• Filling monitoring gaps revealed by an incident
• Migrating monitoring vendors

When NOT to use