What is meant by Alarmierung?
The term "alerting" refers to the process of quickly and effectively notifying individuals or systems about critical events, dangers, or deviations from defined normal states. In the software world, alerting serves to draw timely attention to problems or important changes and to initiate appropriate responses.
Typical software functions in the area of "alerting":
- Event detection: Automatic identification of situations that require an alert.
- Escalation management: Gradual intensification of notifications when there is no response.
- Notification channels: Use of various communication channels such as email, SMS, push notifications, or calls.
- Prioritization: Classification of alerts according to urgency and importance.
- Alert filtering: Avoidance of flooding through intelligent summarization and suppression of redundant messages.
- Logging: Recording of all alerts and subsequent actions for later analysis.
Examples of "alerting":
- Server failure: Immediate notification of the IT team when critical systems are unreachable.
- Threshold exceedance: Alert when defined threshold values are exceeded in production processes.
- Security incident: Notification of security personnel in case of unauthorized access.
- Delivery delay: Alerting the logistics team of deviations from the planned delivery time.
- Resource shortage: Warning of impending lack of storage space or computing capacity.
- Compliance violation: Notification of the legal department in case of violations of company policies.