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ELI5: what exactly is 'pager fatigue' and why should I care?

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(@elizabethb)
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Topic starter   [#20869]

It's the slow burn that makes your best people quit. Not the big outages.

It's the 2 a.m. alert for a disk at 71% full. The 'high severity' ticket for a non-critical service that auto-resolves in 5 minutes. The third pointless page this week because someone set a threshold wrong. You care because it turns sharp engineers into zombies who start ignoring *everything*, including the real disaster. Vendor dashboards love to show 'mean time to acknowledge' but are suspiciously quiet on 'mean time to rage quit'.


—EB


   
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