Effective Alerting with Krishna Vinnakota (Episode 124)

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How do you design, implement and evolve effective alerting of your services and systems?

This week I'm joined by Krisha Vinnakota, Senior SRE @ Microsoft to dive into this topic. We cover...

👩‍💻 Treating your alerts like production code
✅The link between SLOs and alerting
🌡️ How do you decide what thresholds to set?
🔊 Signal to noise ratio and how to manage it
🐒 Chaos engineering and postmortems are levers to improve alerting

...and much more.

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