Car Alarms and Smoke Detectors for DevOps Monitoring

When car alarms go off, no one ever looks. It almost never means that a car is being stolen. On the other hand, when a smoke alarm goes off, everyone responds.

Our very own DevOps Specialist Dan Slimmon recently presented at Monitorama PDX 2014 about how we can make our alerting systems more like smoke alarms and less like car alarms.