Why Alert Noise Is Still a Problem—and How AI Fixes It

At 2:13 a.m., the phone on the nightstand screams, jolting you awake. Again. For most site reliability engineers (SREs) and on-call engineers, alert noise isn’t an occasional nightmare; it’s the background soundtrack of modern operations. Monitoring tools generate thousands of alerts every day, yet a fraction are actionable. The result? Teams spend more time triaging ghost issues than resolving real incidents. Alert noise has become one of the most persistent challenges in observability.