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# [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

May 8 · 7 min read · bhall.dev  
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[Brandon Hall](https://hashnode.com/@bhall)

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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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