Alert Fatigue
Alert fatigue is the desensitization that happens when people receive so many alerts — especially false ones — that they start ignoring them.
Once a team tunes out alerts, it eventually misses a real incident. Fighting alert fatigue means cutting false positives, tuning severities, and only paging humans for things that truly need them.
Related terms
False Positive (Alerting)A false positive is an alert that reports a problem which is not actually affecting users — a false alarm.FlappingFlapping is when a monitored service rapidly alternates between up and down, producing a storm of conflicting alerts.SeveritySeverity is the classification of how serious an incident is — for example critical, warning, or informational.
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