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Question
An alert fires at 3am for a non-critical degradation (something's off, but users may not be significantly affected). How do you decide whether to wake people up or wait until morning?
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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