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# Brandon Hall

@bhall · Boston, USA · Joined May 2026

Writings about Site Reliability Engineering, Observability, and Incident Response.

### [Alerts as Dashboard Substitution](https://bhall.dev/alerts-as-dashboard-substitution?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A recurring argument in on-call discussions on Reddit and elsewhere holds that dashboards are redundant if a team’s alerts are good enough. The position has a kernel of truth. A team that surfaces the

7 min read · [bhall.dev](https://bhall.dev/alerts-as-dashboard-substitution?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[May 8](https://hashnode.com/posts/alerts-as-dashboard-substitution/69fe5c52f239332df417dc31)

### [Alerts Are a Garden](https://bhall.dev/alerts-are-a-garden?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Engineers tend to treat alert configuration as a one-time task. They define thresholds during a service launch, page themselves into the on-call rotation, and move on. This approach fails because aler

5 min read · [bhall.dev](https://bhall.dev/alerts-are-a-garden?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[May 3](https://hashnode.com/posts/alerts-are-a-garden/69f768fd0ab374db99d7b051)