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on-call

Designing an alert escalation policy that doesn't burn out on-call

An escalation policy is the rulebook for who gets paged, when, and how loud. Done well, it gets the right person on the incident fast without waking up a team. Done badly, it burns out everyone and trains them to ignore the pager. Here's a framework that works for small teams.

MyUptimeBot Team · April 22, 2026 · 6 min read · For developers

monitoring

Avoiding false-alarm fatigue: how monitoring should re-check before paging

If your uptime monitor pages you every time a single check fails, you'll mute it within a week. Here's the simple second-region re-check pattern that filters out 95% of false alarms without slowing real-incident detection.

MyUptimeBot Team · December 20, 2025 · 5 min read · For developers

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