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Discussion on: Have you ever been on-call? What was it like?

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Alex Vondrak

Far too common, happened just about everywhere I've ever been on call , is getting pages for events you can't do anything about.

Right in the feels. 💔 This is the problem with most alerts I've been through. Either it's just a noisy signal that doesn't indicate an actual issue, or the issue just isn't actionable.

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Robert Myers

What's even more annoying is the times you DON'T get paged.

At one place where you'd a page if the wind blew wrong, got a call from Customer Service "Did you know the site was down?" Nary a peep from the pager.