Alert Cleanup and Sanity Pass

Neil Hanlon

Starting at

$

750

About this service

Summary

Your alerts shouldn’t be ignored—they should be useful. I’ll clean up your alerting system so your team only hears about real issues, not background noise.

FAQs

  • What tools do you support?

    Prometheus/Alertmanager, Datadog, CloudWatch, Grafana Alerts, and anything YAML-based or API-driven.

  • Will this affect my production alerts?

    Only if you want it to—I can stage changes, work from copies, or pair on live changes depending on your comfort level.

  • Do I need to have playbooks?

    No, but I’ll encourage you to start. I can write alert descriptions that guide responders even without formal docs.

  • Can you also help us implement SLOs or dashboards?

    Yes—but that’s a separate service. Happy to bundle if you're doing a broader observability overhaul.

What's included

  • Alert Rule Audit

    I’ll review your current alerting setup (Prometheus, CloudWatch, Datadog, etc.) and identify noisy, duplicate, or broken rules.

  • Cleaned-Up Alerts

    Alerts rewritten with proper severity levels, runbook links, and actionable messages.

  • Rate-Limiting Logic

    Implementation of dead-man’s switch alerts and rate-limiting to reduce pager fatigue.

  • Final Handoff

    Includes updated alert descriptions, optional playbooks, and a walkthrough of your cleaned-up setup.

Duration

1 week

Skills and tools

DevOps Engineer

IT Specialist

Platform Engineer

Bash

Bash

Git

Git

Grafana

Grafana

Prometheus

Prometheus

Python

Python

Industries

Computer Software
IT Infrastructure
Cybersecurity

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