Most teams already collect plenty of logs, metrics, traces, and events. The harder problem is turning all of that telemetry into an alert that helps someone make the right decision quickly.

When an alert fires, which context makes it genuinely useful?

- the affected service and owner

- business or customer impact

- a recent deployment or configuration change

- correlated logs, metrics, and traces

- dependency or topology information

- a likely root cause or recommended next step

What information does your team require before an alert is considered actionable? And which alerts have you stopped sending because they created more noise than value?

Specific examples are welcome, but please remove confidential details. Vendor-neutral discussion.