alt Hacker NewsSure, but for every alert, there is exception.
ElasticSearch for example can be configured using ILM policies to fill up the disk then start deleting old records. I don't need to be woken up for disk filling up on those nodes.
Even worse is CPU/RAM alerts.
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esafak • yesterday at 4:38 PM
Alerts are for when things don't go as expected. You set up log rotation but an agent quietly breaks it or ES introduces a bug in it.
The number of times I've had to explain how the JVM heap works...