EP133 The Shared Problem of Alerting: More SRE Lessons for Security
Cloud Security Podcast by Google
How to Separate Symptoms From Causes
The idea of symptoms versus causes, right? So lots of times we talk about if this thing happened, it would be bad. That's a cause, right? If we ran out of iNodes on the machine, we would no longer be able to serve. Right? But you don't alert on that, right? Like historically we have. We would be like, so in that case, like let's set an alert for at 90% of iNode,. You know, email the person with the thing and this is not a good idea. It's a bad idea. What we want to do is we want to separate symptoms from causes. Otherwise if we have a bunch
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