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yansoki | 4 months ago | on: Ask HN: As a developer, am I wrong to think monitoring alerts are mostly noise?

Thank you...reading from you guys has been great so far

yansoki | 4 months ago | on: Ask HN: As a developer, am I wrong to think monitoring alerts are mostly noise?

Love this...meaning simply reusing a quick fix is definitely not ideal to help identify root causes...LLMs have come a long way and I feel with adequate tooling and context(the rich ticket data you mentioned), they could really be a great solution or at least provide even better context to developers

yansoki | 4 months ago | on: Ask HN: As a developer, am I wrong to think monitoring alerts are mostly noise?

Thanks tracker...very insightful

yansoki | 4 months ago | on: Ask HN: As a developer, am I wrong to think monitoring alerts are mostly noise?

Okay, thanks a lot, didn't see it like this

yansoki | 4 months ago | on: Ask HN: As a developer, am I wrong to think monitoring alerts are mostly noise?

Thanks...thinking about using AI to learn about what is actually "important" to the developper or team...tracking the alerts that actually lead to manual interventions or important repo changes...this way, we could always automatically send alerts to tiers...just thinking

yansoki | 4 months ago | on: Ask HN: As a developer, am I wrong to think monitoring alerts are mostly noise?

So it's really a manual and iterative process....means there should be room for something to be done

yansoki | 4 months ago | on: Ask HN: As a developer, am I wrong to think monitoring alerts are mostly noise?

I wasn't building one exactly for me, but I believe not all devs have a team available to monitor the deployments for them...and sometimes centralized observability could really be a plus and ease the life for a developper....just being able to vizualise the state of your multiple vps deployments from your single pc without logging into you provider accounts should count for something I belive....this is without any form of anomaly detection or extra advice about your deployment state...I wanna believe this is useful but again the critique is welcome

yansoki | 4 months ago | on: Ask HN: As a developer, am I wrong to think monitoring alerts are mostly noise?

Yes that's true....but my frustrations lmade me wonder if others really faced these problems, and before attempting to solve it, I want to know about solutions available...but lol everyone seems to say it's hell

yansoki | 4 months ago | on: Ask HN: As a developer, am I wrong to think monitoring alerts are mostly noise?

So ideally, a system that can learn from your infrastructure and traffic patterns or metrics over time? Cuz that's what I'm thinking about and your last statement seems to validate it...also from what I'm getting no tool actually exists for this

yansoki | 4 months ago | on: Ask HN: As a developer, am I wrong to think monitoring alerts are mostly noise?

This is an incredibly insightful and helpful comment, thank you. You explain exactly what I thought when writing this post. The phrase that stands out to me is "constant iterative process." It feels like most tools are built to just "fire alerts," but not to facilitate that crucial, human-in-the-loop review and tweaking process you described. A quick follow-up question if you don't mind: do you feel like that "iterative process" of reviewing and tweaking alerts is well-supported by your current tools, or is it a manual, high-effort process that relies entirely on team discipline? (This is the exact problem space I'm exploring. If you're ever open to a brief chat, my DMs are open. No pressure at all, your comment has already been immensely helpful, thanks.)

yansoki | 4 months ago | on: Ask HN: As a developer, am I wrong to think monitoring alerts are mostly noise?

You've hit the nail on the head with "devilishly hard." That phrase perfectly captures what I've felt. What have you found to be the most "devilish" part of it? Is it defining what "normal" behavior is for a service, or is it trying to account for all the possible-but-rare failure modes?

yansoki | 4 months ago | on: Ask HN: As a developer, am I wrong to think monitoring alerts are mostly noise?

Thanks for the sanity check. In your experience, what's the biggest source of the noise? Do you find it's more of a tooling problem (e.g., bad defaults) or a people/process problem (e.g., alerts not being cleaned up)?