Lexicon

Alert on Critical Failure

Kind: technique

Layer: Observability

Record: lexicon:alert-on-critical-failure

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for raising an alert with an owner and a severity when a critical path fails.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Trace Span and before Cardinality Reduction.

Category

  • Observability / Auditability / Traceability

Refactors

  • Unobservable Failure
  • Log-as-Control-Flow
  • Alerting

Linked from

  • Anti-patterns
  • Observability / Auditability / Traceability