👉 Alerts engineering is a specialized discipline within software engineering focused on designing, implementing, and maintaining alerting systems that notify teams of critical issues or anomalies in software applications. It involves creating a robust framework for detecting, classifying, and responding to alerts generated by monitoring tools, logging systems, and other data sources. Engineers in this field ensure that alerts are actionable, reducing false positives and prioritizing the most critical incidents. They also develop strategies for alert fatigue mitigation, optimize alert delivery methods (such as email, Slack, or PagerDuty), and continuously refine alerting rules based on feedback and operational data to enhance system reliability and team efficiency.
