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What strategies did Mr Mosquera employ to minimize alert fatigue among the on-call team?
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To minimize alert fatigue, John Mosquera employed several strategies. He refined the alerting thresholds to reduce false positives, ensuring that alerts were triggered only for genuinely actionable issues. By tailoring monitors to specific services and environments, he improved the relevance of alerts. John also implemented a tiered alert system, differentiating between critical issues requiring immediate attention and less urgent notifications. The integration with PagerDuty allowed for smarter routing of alerts to the most appropriate team members. Additionally, the comprehensive alert messages he crafted provided context that helped responders quickly assess the severity and nature of issues, reducing the cognitive load associated with each alert. These combined strategies helped maintain the on-call team's responsiveness by ensuring they were only notified for significant, actionable issues. Mr Mosquera minimized alert fatigue by refining thresholds, implementing service-specific monitoring, creating a tiered alert system, and providing context-rich notifications, ensuring that the on-call team received only relevant and actionable alerts.