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Microservices Pattern

Log Aggregation + Alerting

Trigger alerts from logs and metrics before users report problems.

alerts

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