Charity Majors on X: "Real talk, you should never have a paging alert on a system stats metric. Or a single host anything metric. (Or an aggregate host metric, or an aggregate divided by host count, or ...)"
Real talk, you should never have a paging alert on a system stats metric. Or a single host anything metric. (Or an aggregate host metric, or an aggregate divided by host count, or ...)
Real talk, you should never have a paging alert on a system stats metric. Or a single host anything metric. (Or an aggregate host metric, or an aggregate divided by host count, or ...)
Sometime it’s the only hammer you have, and you gotta do what you do; sure.
But it smells terrible and it does not scale. This “quick fix” is gonna drain your ops team of their life force (or whoever carries pager) faster than anything I can think of.