5000 Alerts Nobody Reads: 6 Architecture Decisions from Fragmented to Unified Observability
Overview A friend of mine complained last year: his company deployed Prometheus, ELK, and Jaeger — three separate tool stacks maintained by a 7-person ops team. They spent 4 hours a day just triaging alerts. One night at 3 AM, the payment service hit a P0 incident, and it took 42 minutes from alert trigger to root cause identification. The root cause was a database connection pool configuration change causing slow query buildup....