# Alert Fatigue

> The degree to which too many alerts desensitize responders, so the ones that matter are ignored.

Record: `lexicon:alert-fatigue`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-alert-fatigue

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Failure Detection](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/failure-detection.md) and before [Incident Response](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/incident-response.md).

## Category

- [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/observability-auditability-traceability.md)

## In tension with

- [Alerting](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/alerting.md)
- [Alerting / Alert Fatigue](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/alert-fatigue-alerting.md)

## Linked from

- [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)