Anti-Fatigue Protection
Alert fatigue occurs when teams receive too many notifications. This can lead to missed alerts and slower response times. Upstat’s anti-fatigue features help manage notification flow to reduce overload.
Automatic Alert Management
Upstat automatically:
- Groups duplicate alerts together
- Limits notification frequency
- Bundles related alerts
- Respects quiet hours
Deduplication
Duplicate alerts from the same source are automatically grouped together. For example, if a monitor flaps up and down repeatedly, you’ll get one notification with a count rather than many individual alerts.
Rate Limiting
To prevent notification storms, there are limits on how many notifications you can receive per hour. Critical alerts always get through, while lower-priority notifications may be bundled or delayed.
Alert Bundling
Related alerts are automatically grouped together. For example, if multiple monitors for the same service fail, you’ll receive one notification summarizing all the issues rather than individual alerts for each.
Quiet Hours
Set personal quiet hours in your notification preferences. Non-critical alerts will be held until your quiet hours end. Critical alerts and on-call notifications will still come through.
Configuration
Set your preferences in Profile → Notification Preferences:
- Choose quiet hours
- Select notification channels by severity
- Adjust bundling preferences
Troubleshooting
Still getting too many alerts?
- Check severity levels are set appropriately
- Review your notification preferences
- Consider using fewer notification channels
Missing important alerts?
- Verify critical alerts are properly marked
- Check quiet hour settings
- Test notification delivery
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