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Microservices Pattern
Log Aggregation + Alerting
Trigger alerts from logs and metrics before users report problems.
Detailed Description
Alerts should represent user impact or urgent operational risk.
Too many low-signal alerts train teams to ignore the monitoring system.
Visual Diagram
Metric/log rule -> threshold/anomaly -> alert -> on-call response
Tradeoffs
Pros
Proactive detection and accountability
Cons
Alert fatigue if thresholds are noisy
Examples: PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Grafana Alerts, CloudWatch Alarms