# How to deal with alert fatigue head-on

DevFeed: [How to deal with alert fatigue head-on](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-deal-with-alert-fatigue-head-on-11749.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/dealing-with-alert-fatigue-head-on>)

Author: incident.io

Published: 2024-03-13T19:19:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The incident.io Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-incident-io-blog.md>)

Topics: [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [site-reliability-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/site-reliability-engineering.md>)

Tags: [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [incident-channel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-channel.md>), [incident-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-management.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [on-call](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/on-call.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>), [workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflow.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains alert fatigue among on-call engineers and the risks caused by excessive, ignored, or delayed alerts. It recommends proactively treating alerts or alert groups as incidents to identify which alerts lead to no action and which correlate with high-severity incidents.

## Source excerpt

Alert fatigue is a real issue that affects people holding the pager. Here, we explain how you can address it proactively before it spirals into a bigger issue.