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latest intelligence OVERCOMING ALERT FATIGUE IN A MODERN OPS ENVIRONMENT C M Y CM MY CY 4 STEPS TO BETTER INCIDENT MANAGEMENT A PRESENTED BY DOWNLOAD WHITEPAPERS AT: WWW.INTELLIGENTCISO.COM/ WHITEPAPERS 16 lerts from monitoring systems and ticketing tools are a good thing, as they help IT ops and DevOps teams track the health and performance of core apps and services and enable responders to react quickly to incidents. desensitised to alerts, which can cause them to miss critical notifications. This whitepaper explains why alert fatigue is so detrimental to a modern operations environment and how organisations can avoid alert fatigue by integrating their monitoring systems with a centralised incident management system. But it’s possible to have too much of a good thing and alerts are no exception. When your monitoring systems generate too many issues that require your attention, your organisation starts to suffer from the phenomenon known as alert fatigue. Alert fatigue: What it is and what causes it When alert fatigue sets in, operational environments suffer, impacting the services you deliver to employees and customers. Teams become The basic definition of alert fatigue is simple – when the frequency of alerts exceeds the ability of the operators to effectively triage those alerts, IT operations’ workflows break down and alerts are missed. It becomes harder and harder to find the real signals in the noise and, consequently, responders can become desensitised to them. u Issue 06 | www.intelligentciso.com CMY K