# Alert review checklist

For every alert, record:

1. User impact or operator action the alert demands.
2. Metric type: counter, gauge, timestamp, state marker, or recording rule.
3. Scope and deduplication labels.
4. Persistence window and startup grace.
5. Minimum sample size for ratios.
6. No-data and query-error behavior.
7. Current value and a recent range query.
8. Notification frequency in Grafana logs.
9. Current, migrated, suspended, or historical resource status.
10. Exact Flux-tracked source, generated artifacts, tests, and rollback condition.

A rule is useful only when its firing state implies a specific human action. Backlogs and unenrolled resources belong on dashboards unless they have crossed an explicitly accepted operational deadline.
