IT Teams Are Battling A Surge In Outages Over Missed Critical Alerts
ITPro, Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
IT workers are ignoring a torrent of false alerts, but there's a risk a legitimate one could slip through the net
Alert fatigue is fast becoming one of the most pressing challenges to operational resilience, new research suggests, and it's harming workforce morale.
According to Splunk's State of Observability 2025, three-quarters (75%) of UK IT teams say they experienced outages as a result of an ignored or suppressed alert last year.
Meanwhile, 15% admitted to deliberately ignoring or suppressing alerts - higher than the global average of 13%.