A new survey confirms what many IT pros already know: downtime doesn't exist, with dashboards and alerts intruding on their free time.

Early mornings, late evenings, weekends. Useless users always demand support

More than half of the 616 IT professionals surveyed (52 percent) said they checked dashboards during nights, weekends, or vacations, with 59 percent saying past outages had left them more obsessive about making sure that everything is working. A third of IT pros said they felt compelled to check in at least once an hour.

But that's OK – it should be possible to get alerts when things aren't looking healthy, right?

While a whopping 62 percent of respondents said a dashboard alert had helped prevent a major outage, even more – 76 percent – said the relentless pings disrupted thei

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