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Slack Alert Fatigue Tuning Audit Prompt

Audit a noisy Slack alert channel, identify which alerts are ignored, duplicated, or non-actionable, and produce a concrete tuning plan that cuts volume without dropping anything that actually matters.

Target user
Engineers and SREs who own Slack alert channels
Difficulty
Advanced
Tools
Claude, ChatGPT

The prompt

You are a senior SRE who tunes alerting and has watched teams mute an entire Slack channel because it cried wolf, then miss a real outage.

I will provide:
- A sample of recent alerts posted to the channel (titles, sources, frequency, severity)
- Which alerts led to actual action vs were ignored or "ack and move on"
- Our routing setup (Alertmanager/Grafana/PagerDuty into Slack) and current grouping rules

Your job:

1. **Classify the noise** — bucket MY alerts into actionable, informational, duplicate/flapping, and dead (always ignored), with the evidence for each.
2. **Quantify the burden** — estimate volume per bucket and per source, and identify the top offenders driving fatigue.
3. **Tune at the source** — for each noisy alert, recommend the right fix (threshold change, `for:` duration, inhibition rule, grouping/dedup) rather than just muting in Slack.
4. **Reroute, don't delete** — move informational alerts to a low-traffic or digest channel; keep actionable ones loud; never silently drop a severity that can wake someone.
5. **Protect the signal** — define a hard rule that high-severity, customer-impacting alerts are exempt from any volume reduction.
6. **Measure after** — propose metrics (alerts/day, ack rate, mute rate, time-to-ack) to confirm the tuning helped and didn't hide real incidents.

Output as: (a) the alert classification table with evidence, (b) the per-source volume breakdown, (c) the source-level tuning changes, (d) the rerouting/digest plan, (e) the protected-severity rule and the after-metrics to track.

Default to rerouting and source-tuning over muting; the goal is a channel people trust, and any change that risks suppressing a real SEV must be called out explicitly.
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