Alert Fatigue
Noun · Security & Infosec
Definitions
The desensitization and reduced response quality that occurs when analysts are overwhelmed by too many alerts, especially low-value or repetitive ones. Alert fatigue is dangerous because true incidents can be missed amid noise.
In plain English: The exhaustion that happens when security teams get too many alerts to handle well.
Example: "The SOC's alert fatigue got so bad that real credential abuse alerts were being closed as routine noise."
Related Terms
- SIEM
- Health Check
- Integrity Monitoring
- LLMOps
- Attack Playbook
- CTI
- Detection Gap
- Emergency Access
- Health Check Security
- Hybrid Attack
- Incident Handler
- Indicator Management
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Log Monitoring
- Maintenance Window Security
- Managed Detection and Response
- MDR
- Mean Time to Detect
- Monitoring Dashboard
- MSSP
- Network Probe
- Network Telemetry
- Operational Intelligence
- Patch Pipeline
- Privileged Session
- Process Monitor
- Real-Time Monitoring