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Alerting is the bridge between observability and action. The purpose of an alert is to notify the right person at the right time about a condition that requires human intervention. Done well, alerting catches problems early and reduces incident impact. Done poorly, it leads to alert fatigue, missed issues, and burned-out engineers.
Google's SRE book established foundational principles for alerting:
Rule of thumb: If an alert fires and the on-call engineer says "I can ignore this," the alert should be removed or changed.
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