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Alert on Burn Rate, Not Raw Error Rate

Threshold alerts either page for noise or miss real outages. Multiwindow burn-rate alerts tie paging to how fast the error budget is being spent, with Prometheus rules you can adapt.

Allowlist, Don't Blocklist: Redacting Telemetry

Blocklist regexes miss whatever you did not think of. A fail-closed allowlist at the source and in the OpenTelemetry Collector keeps secrets and personal data out of traces, logs and metrics.