What is the main consequence of configuring alerts to fire on every trace?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Alert fatigue is the failure mode. You keep getting pings, so you stop reading them, and real trouble slips through.
Full Explanation
The correct consequence is that alert volume overwhelms the responders, and genuine problems are lost among notifications that require no action. The cost of over-alerting is human rather than technical. When most notifications need no response, responders learn to dismiss them, and the one that mattered is dismissed along with the rest.
The idea that Instana stops collecting traces once the alert rate exceeds a limit is incorrect because trace collection is independent of alert evaluation and continues regardless.
The idea that trace data is deleted as each alert fires is incorrect because alerting does not consume or remove the data it evaluates.
The idea that notification channels are automatically disabled by the backend is incorrect because channels are not disabled automatically; they will faithfully deliver every notification generated.
For the exam, associate over-alerting with alert fatigue and degraded response, not with a platform-level failure.