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Observability Operator

Noisy alert that keeps firing

An alert keeps paging and someone wants it silenced. How 2501 finds out whether it is real, recovered, a misfiring rule or missing data, and keeps silences narrow.

An alert that pages on-call night after night is sorted by 2501 as a real problem, already recovered, a misfiring rule or missing data, with real problems sent to their owner and any silence kept narrow and short

ServiceNow or another ITSM

Your rules, confirmation and blacklists

Investigate only, with a person, or on its own

On-prem, cloud or hybrid

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// HOW 2501 HANDLES IT

When an alert keeps firing, silencing it is the quick fix, but a silence wide or long enough to stop the noise can also swallow the real incident the alert was built to catch. 2501 finds out what is behind the alert first, and when a silence is warranted, keeps it narrow and short.

An alert that pages on-call night after night teaches people to ignore it, until the night it matters.

What 2501 does

The Observability specialty investigates before it acts. A monitoring agent that stopped reporting can raise the same alert as a failed service, so 2501 tells the two apart, and restarts a monitoring agent only once it is shown to be at fault. Each alert is sorted as a real problem, already recovered, a misfiring rule or missing data. A real problem goes with its evidence to the specialty or team that owns the fix; a misfiring rule is reported with a suggested correction for your team to make. When a silence is needed, it covers one alert on one service, expires on its own and names the ticket it belongs to. This works across Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Loki and OpenTelemetry.

How 2501 handles a noisy alert: signal, sort it as a real problem, already recovered, a misfiring rule or missing data, when a silence is warranted keep it to one alert on one service expiring on its own, send real problems to their owner with the evidence

You stay in control

  • You choose the level: investigate only, act after a person confirms, or act on its own within your rules. The level is set per specialty, not per ticket.
  • Critical and long silences wait for a person: silencing a critical alert, or silencing anything for more than a day, needs a person's approval.
  • Alert rules are flagged, not edited: it never changes alert rules or deletes dashboards, and never restarts Prometheus or Alertmanager to clear an alert.
  • Your rules apply: which services' alerts it may silence unattended, and which always go to a person.

Frequently asked

Why not silence it for a week? A silence that long outlives the problem it was meant for and hides whatever comes next. Anything over a day needs a person's approval.

Can it triage without silencing anything? Yes. In investigate-only mode it sorts the alert and shows the evidence, and creates no silences.

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