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descriptionLanguage: en
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# Actionable Alerting

- Type: incident detection practice
- Group: Operations and risks
- Placement: Operations / Observation and objectives
- [Source](<https://sre.google/sre-book/practical-alerting/>)

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Notify people about significant operational failures requiring concrete action; thresholds and routing reflect service objectives.

## Relationships

- uses signals from: [Observability](/practices/observability/en.md) (support)
- may trigger: [Incident Response / Incident Management](/practices/incident/en.md) (support)
- may account for violations of: [Service Level Objectives](/practices/slo/en.md) (support)

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