How to Effectively Deal with Alert Fatigue in DevOps

Alerts have become the backbone of monitoring and providing feedback in modern application development lifecycles. They can be integrated into the development process from the development, build, testing, and deployment stages to ongoing monitoring of an application. Alerts are highly useful for identifying issues in different stages of a DevOps pipeline. However, the sheer number of alerts that are generated can quickly lead to alert fatigue. In this post, we will explore how to mitigate ale