u/Clark12-002

my monitoring environments has gradually become its own engineering project. every new device onboarding requires manual tweaks, custom thresholds, dependency adjustments and alert cleanup. we reached a point where only one or two people fully understand how everything is weird together which makes troubleshooting stressful whenever they are unavaible. i still want detailed visibility and reliable alerting but maintaining the monitoring stack itself shouldnt feel like a second full time job. want to know how other teams reduced operational overhead without sacrificing monitoring quality.