Spike protection keeps triggering after planned audits
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Description
### Problem Statement
When we run a planned audit that causes a big but expected spike in errors, Sentry’s spike protection turns on (as expected) but then keeps triggering afterward during normal traffic.
This causes:
- Extra “spike protection triggered/ended” emails
- Some real production events being dropped even when volume looks normal
Can spike protection handle planned spikes (like audits or load tests) better so that:
- A one-time, intentional spike doesn’t make the system overly sensitive afterward
- We don’t lose normal production events or get noisy alerts once traffic is back to usual
### Product Area
Settings - Spike Protection
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start in Settings - Spike Protection and trace how planned audits affect later spike detection, event dropping, and notifications. Clarify the expected behavior for intentional one-time spikes versus normal traffic, then validate that normal events are retained and duplicate alerts do not continue after traffic returns to usual.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- observability
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100