Code RoomAlert delivery failed
MediumPrep Room Coding #3122

Alert delivery failed

On-callReliability & on-callSenior~20 min

You discover the on-call paging/alerting system itself failed — alerts fired but pages were never delivered, so an incident went unnoticed for a while. How do you handle it?

What a strong answer looks like

Stop the bleeding first (mitigate), then form hypotheses from real signals. Separate root cause from symptom, communicate status as you go, and close with what prevents a repeat.

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