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5 questions in Alerting.

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"You are on-call for a checkout service. Design what pages you at 03:00." That is the whole prompt. How do you handle it?

A platform's alerts are defined per component - CPU, memory, queue depth, replica lag. During an incident, forty alerts fire simultaneously. What should the alerting strategy be instead?

Error rate has been 1.5% for three days. No alert fired. Customers are complaining. What is happening and what failed?

What is the test for whether an alert should exist, and what does applying it honestly do?

Your team's on-call phone has not been paged in nine days and every dashboard is green. Why is that not yet evidence that anything is healthy, and what single mechanism turns silence into a signal?