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Understand service health, incidents, and the telemetry used to investigate production systems. Connect reliability outcomes to engineering decisions.
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11 termsAdmission control
Admission control is a reliability concept used to describe a specific condition, control, or decision in the operation of software services.
Reliability and observabilityAlert deduplication
Alert deduplication is a reliability concept used to describe a specific condition, control, or decision in the operation of software services.
Reliability and observabilityAlert evaluation window
Alert evaluation window is a reliability concept used to describe a specific condition, control, or decision in the operation of software services.
Reliability and observabilityAlert fatigue
Alert fatigue is the reduced ability or willingness to respond carefully to alerts after repeated exposure to notifications that are noisy, low priority, or rarely actionable.
Reliability and observabilityAlert inhibition
Alert inhibition is a reliability concept used to describe a specific condition, control, or decision in the operation of software services.
Reliability and observabilityAlert policy
Alert policy is documented conditions, grouping, suppression, ownership, and response expectations for alerts.
Reliability and observabilityAlert routing
Alert routing is sending an alert to the team, channel, or escalation path responsible for response.
Reliability and observabilityAlert rule
Alert rule is the query, condition, window, grouping, and action that create an alert.
Reliability and observabilityAlert suppression
Alert suppression is the intentional prevention or grouping of notifications when known conditions make individual alerts redundant.
Reliability and observabilityApplication monitoring
Application monitoring is observation of service-level errors, latency, dependencies, and business operations.
Reliability and observabilityAuto-instrumentation
Auto-instrumentation is automatic addition of standard telemetry to supported libraries or runtimes.
Reliability and observability