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Golden signals and alerting on symptoms
Use "Symptoms page, saturation warns early and raw traffic mostly informs" to describe the practical rule.
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Golden signals and alerting on symptomsalert on what users feel
Not every signal deserves a page. Rank the four by how directly a user feels them: symptoms page, saturation warns early and raw traffic mostly informs.
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What Earns a 3am Page
Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.
diagram: signal-bars
The four golden signals ranked by how hard you page on them. User-facing symptoms page, capacity is a leading indicator and raw demand mostly informs.