Why am I still buried by alerts, even running the show?

You run operations now. That was the job you wanted. But the alerts keep coming, the scale keeps growing, and you feel buried under both. This is not proof you failed. It is proof you have not yet decided what deserves your attention. Nobody taught you this part. You learned to fix problems, not to filter them. So you treat every ping like a fire, and every fire like yours to carry. That is exhausting — and it is also a choice you keep making, hour after hour. Scale will not stop. More alerts are coming, not fewer. The only thing within your power is what you let reach you, and what you hand to a rule, a process, or another person. Start there.