A busy alert channel does not prove that important customer work is being protected. A stuck approval can matter more than a recovered model error.

Choose signals around business harm, such as unresolved request age, repeated integration failure, and missing recovery ownership.

For each alert, name the responder, safe diagnostic view, immediate permitted action, and escalation route before writing the rule.

Test delivery with synthetic events, group related symptoms, and review duplicates, false alarms, and unresolved outcomes.

Agree the hours when people will respond. An automated overnight message is not continuous human monitoring, and more notifications cannot substitute for a real service commitment.

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