Are we overcomplicating alerting? And why does a system designed to notify us when things go wrong so often become part of the problem itself? These questions immediately came to mind when I saw Colin Douch's Talk on the OSMC 2025 program. With experience as former Tech Lead of the Observability team at Cloudflare how is now at DuckDuckGo, he brought firsthand insight into the challenges of modern alert management. Colin introduced Onotify, an alternative to Prometheus Alertmanager. As someone...
