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# [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

May 3 · 5 min read · bhall.dev  
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Writings about Site Reliability Engineering, Observability, and Incident Response.

I’ve been working with systems and leading reliability teams of various scopes for over a decade. I’m keenly interested in the different implementations of SRE and where it’s going in the future.

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