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Monitor Microservices Without Alert Fatigue

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You are improving observability for a microservice architecture and want to catch real production issues without overwhelming engineers with noisy alerts. The system has many services, shared dependencies, and different failure modes, so a naive alerting setup could either miss customer-impacting incidents or page the team too often.

Question

How would you set up monitoring for a microservice architecture to prevent alert fatigue while ensuring critical issues are caught?