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While PagerDuty is a established incident management tool, modern alternatives offer significant advantages including better user interfaces, transparent pricing, advanced SRE features, unified platforms, and superior support. Teams are increasingly switching to competitors like Squadcast for more comprehensive, cost-effective incident management solutions that better serve DevOps and SRE needs.
Learn how to effectively reduce alert noise during system maintenance by implementing suppression rules. Configure time-based alert suppression, filter by source or host, and use variable-based conditions to prevent alert fatigue while maintaining visibility of critical notifications.
Kubernetes health checks using probes (readiness, liveness, and startup) are essential for ensuring application reliability and high availability. Readiness probes determine if a pod is ready to serve traffic, while liveness probes check if the application is running correctly. Probes can be configured via HTTP, TCP, or command-based methods, with options like initialDelaySeconds and periodSeconds for fine-tuning. Implementing these probes is a key Kubernetes monitoring best practice, enabling automated issue detection, fault tolerance, and improved user experiences.
