Modern monitoring solutions can provide a framework for robust infrastructure monitoring that can both alert when necessary and avoid alert overload. However, it’s important to realize that even the best tools require careful implementation and ongoing tuning and improvement. This white paper will provide best practices for alert tuning to ensure the following outcomes: monitoring is in place to catch critical conditions, the right people are alerted, the amount of noise is reduced, and people are not needlessly woken up. These outcomes are essential to a successful monitoring strategy.