Background
One of the most popular complaints from developers to DBAs involves alerting, whether from third party tools or alerting built by other developers or DBAs in the environment. Building or using alerts for important applications, data layers, or processes within a SQL Server environment offer everyone benefits, but can become noisy if they’re architected poorly, or the purpose isn’t considered. In this article, we look at considerations for building effective alerts that tell us when something is wrong without creating situations where we learn to disregard them. We want to make sure that we respond when we need to, and not always be on high alert when there is no issue.
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