Cooldown / Debounce
A cooldown (or debounce) is a minimum waiting period applied before an alert state changes, used to suppress rapid, repeated notifications.
By requiring a condition to persist for a short window before alerting, and before clearing, cooldowns smooth out flapping and prevent a single blip from paging everyone twice.
Related terms
FlappingFlapping is when a monitored service rapidly alternates between up and down, producing a storm of conflicting alerts.False Positive (Alerting)A false positive is an alert that reports a problem which is not actually affecting users: a false alarm.Quorum (Location Confirmation)In monitoring, a quorum is the number of check locations that must agree a service is failing before an incident is opened.
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