Alerting

Kind: mechanism

Layer: Observability

Record: architecture:alerting

Severity: mandatory

Scope: operations, service

Canonical: Ontology

A mechanism that notifies an on-call responder when a monitored condition holds for longer than its threshold.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Monitoring and before Auditability.

Requires

• Monitoring
• Thresholds

Reinforces

• Incident Response

Enables

• Timely Intervention

Conflicts with

• Silent Failure
• Observability Noise

In tension with

• Alert Fatigue

Tensions

• Alerting / Alert Fatigue

Violated by

• Unobservable Failure

Refactored by

• Alert on Critical Failure
• Track Rule Metrics

Severity

• mandatory

Category

• Observability / Auditability / Traceability

Reinforced by

• SLO/SLI

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Observability / Auditability / Traceability
• Architecture Review Evolution Governance
• Core Vocabulary
• Observability / Auditability / Traceability
• Severity levels
• The resolutions