The Alert Fatigue Trap: Why Consolidation Only Solves Half the Problem

Summary: Kaseya reports it monitored more than 27.6 billion SaaS events in 2025, of which almost 98.9% were low severity while more than 278.9 million were medium- or critical-level alerts. The article argues that consolidating alerts into fewer tools solves a location problem but not a meaning problem, and cites customer conversations in which manual triage misclassification rates range from 20% to 30%.
What's compelling: At a 20% to 30% manual misclassification rate, a genuine threat in a busy queue can be assigned the wrong priority before an analyst has time to investigate it, while the team spends that time on lower-value activity.

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