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8.1The Alert Fatigue Problem
Alert fatigue -- the condition where on-call engineers ignore alerts because most of them are false positives -- is the enemy of observability-driven testing. Good alert design is as important as good test design. A test suite that produces too many false positives gets ignored; an alerting system that produces too many false positives gets the same treatment.