Re:Is your SRE monitoring like a car alarm or smoke alarm?
by mertd on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @05:18PM
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The post is somewhat incomplete without also discussing the cost of the wrong decision.
You obey the smoke alarm because the cost of ignoring the alarm when it is a true positive is potentially infinite (you die). You ignore the car alarm because (1) most likely it is a false positive but also (2) most likely it is somebody else's car.
You obey the smoke alarm because the cost of ignoring the alarm when it is a true positive is potentially infinite (you die). You ignore the car alarm because (1) most likely it is a false positive but also (2) most likely it is somebody else's car.