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Prefer exploration over alerts; noisy alerts are worse than none

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Callaghan is reticent to add alerts. Noisy alerts train teams to ignore them — the boy-who-cried-wolf effect — and become worse than having no alerts at all. He prefers building dashboards and ad-hoc exploration tools, using alerts as seasoning for truly critical conditions (e.g. no events reaching Segment, logs about to breach monthly quota).

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takeaway Prefer exploration over alerts; noisy alerts are worse than none
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Q&A answer to the alerts-on-logs-vs-metrics question.

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