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Company faces ~100,000 alerts per month; goal is less than two alerts per shift. Initiative named clean room negotiates alert budgets with each studio, denying SRE coverage when teams exceed limits (e.g., kicked out for >5 noisy alerts/week) until they fix sources. Fixes include defining actionable alerts, routing pages to owning dev teams, and running postmortems. Outcome: noisy alerts drop ~90%, pager SLA falls to ~5 minutes, SRE time shifts from firefighting to engineering.

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1. 0:00Over-monitoring problem
2. 3:51Healthcare lessons for tech
3. 8:29Failed alert overload fixes
4. 10:14Vision: two alerts per shift
5. 14:30Denying support decision
6. 17:18Alliances for change
7. 19:08Alert budgets with Cleanroom
8. 22:21Reducing noise culture tools
9. 24:28Ownership and value

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