# Alert fatigue

> When responders receive so many alerts, many not actionable, that they start ignoring or muting them and miss the ones that matter.

URL: https://pagerless.dev/glossary/alert-fatigue
Updated: 2026-10-22

## In Pagerless

Grouping, baselines and three levels (wake, tell, log) keep pages rare; four floors always wake.

## Related terms

- [Paging](https://pagerless.dev/glossary/paging): Interrupting a person to demand attention now, usually by push notification, phone call or SMS, named after the pagers on-call engineers once carried.
- [Alert grouping](https://pagerless.dev/glossary/alert-grouping): Combining many related signals, such as the same error repeated, into one problem so a responder sees it once.
- [Alert noise](https://pagerless.dev/glossary/noise): Alerts that don't need anyone to act: duplicates, known background errors, bots probing dead URLs, flapping checks.