How To Tame Alert Fatigue With Time Series Databases

One of the most frustrating challenges in monitoring systems is alert fatigue. When your monitoring infrastructure generates dozens of notifications for the same underlying issue, operators quickly become overwhelmed. Critical alerts get lost in the noise, response times suffer and teams start ignoring notifications altogether.

For time series monitoring data, this problem is particularly acute. High-frequency metrics can trigger cascading alerts, turning a single database slowdown into hundreds of notifications. The result? Missed anomalies,…