Alerting System

An Alerting System is an notification system that supports alerting tasks.

• Context:
  • It can be developed using an Alerting Platform.
  • It can support:
    • auditing or writing alerting rules
    • oncall rotation
    • Pages that are urgent, important, actionable, and real.
    • Ongoing or imminent problems with your service.
    • non-noisy alerts
    • Classify the problem into: availability & basic functionality; latency; correctness (completeness, freshness and durability of data); and feature-specific problems.
    • Cause-based information in symptom-based pages.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • an Earthquake Alerting System.
  • one based on Prometheus Alertmanager.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Monitoring System.
• See: Alert Messaging, Notification System.

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