Define: "Alert Fatigue" in Business
Catastrophic fiscal burn
"Route all low-level alerts directly to a junk folder. If it is a real emergency someone will eventually yell at you on Slack."
The desensitization and exhaustion experienced by workers who are exposed to a high volume of frequent automated alarms.
What does "Alert Fatigue" actually mean?
"When the dashboard throws so many false-positive Priority 1s that you start ignoring the alarms while the physical datacenter is actively on fire."
"We need to tune our monitoring systems to reduce alert fatigue among the on-call staff."
"Thanks to severe alert fatigue, nobody noticed the primary database failing because it was buried under 400 alerts about a printer running out of cyan ink."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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