Alert Automation and Remediation: From Alert Storms to Self-Healing Systems
Overview 3 AM. Your phone buzzes. You get out of bed, open your laptop, SSH in, and find a service with CPU spiking. Kill the process, restart the service, 12 minutes done — but you’re wide awake now. 4:30 AM, another alert: disk usage exceeds 85%. Get up again, du -sh to locate, delete old logs, 15 minutes. This is the daily reality for countless operations engineers. Monitoring is set up, alerts are configured, scripts are written — but the final step still relies on humans....