In 2025, New Relic customers created 2.2 billion alert events across monitored environments. 821 million issues, or potential problems, originated in production systems alone. This activity reflects the steady operational load of software at scale. Under these conditions, operational effectiveness depends on speed of understanding. Teams must interpret signals, establish context, and decide on action in compressed timeframes. Alert volume rises quickly. Manual correlation of alert events to potential issues becomes increasingly difficult. Teams need to decide which of those alert events and potential issues are worth their time and which are just noise