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Craig Hale

IT teams are being hit with outages due to missing vital alerts

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  • More UK IT teams ignore alerts than the global average
  • Tool sprawl is the biggest problem, false alerts are also an issue
  • IT teams need to strengthen observability with more context and remediation

Three in four UK IT teams experienced outages in 2025 due to missed critical alerts, highlighting the risks not only of poor setups that led to these failures, but also so-called alert fatigue.

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