intermediate · slos
What Should Page Someone at 3am?
What deserves to wake a human at 3am, and what does not?
Practical scenario
An on-call rotation receives roughly 40 alerts a week. Two of them last quarter corresponded to real user-facing incidents. Nobody wants to be on call.
What it tests
- • Symptom-based versus cause-based alerting
- • Whether the candidate requires actionability
- • Awareness of alert fatigue as a real failure mode