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Field Note · Jul 18, 2026 · Colten Anderson

Audit your suppression graveyard before a live page dies in it

Silences, downtimes, and maintenance windows get created for good reasons and never revisited. Here are the enumeration commands and three cleanup flags that find the ones that have quietly gone bad.
Analysis · Jun 25, 2026 · Colten Anderson

You're measuring how many alerts fired. The number that matters is how many you acted on

Most monitored environments fire far more alerts than anyone investigates, and almost nobody tracks the gap. That ratio is where the one real alert dies.