Q: My only goal should be detecting downtime as fast as possible, right?
A: That's only half the job, and chasing it alone leads you astray. Detection speed matters, but mean time to recovery, how fast you actually fix it, usually dominates total downtime. Shaving 30 seconds off detection means little if your alert lands in a channel nobody watches and takes 20 minutes to reach a human.
The myth is optimizing detection in isolation. The chain is detect, notify, acknowledge, diagnose, fix. Your weakest link sets your real recovery time.
Recommendation: instead of obsessing over interval, fix routing and escalation. Make sure the alert reaches the right person on the right channel with the right context (which endpoint, which region, what error) in seconds.
Follow-up: an alert that says what's wrong beats one that just says it's wrong.
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Q: My only goal should be detecting downtime as fast as possible, right?
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