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AI-generatedChoosing between threshold and anomaly detection monitors to limit Datadog alert noise
Teams want to receive alerts only when a metric truly deviates from expected behavior, avoiding excessive notifications from normal fluctuations. Threshold‑based monitors are easy to configure and give predictable triggering, but a static limit can cause many alerts on bursty or seasonal traffic unless the threshold is tuned tightly. Anomaly‑detection monito
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