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How to Group Alerts by Time Window in Python

Group alert occurrences that fall within a sliding time window per alert key, reducing noise and summarizing bursts into single events.

alerts grouping monitoring
Python 
from collections import defaultdict
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

def group_alerts(alerts, window_minutes=10):
    """Group alerts that occur within the same time window."""
    alerts_by_key = defaultdict(list)
    
    for alert in alerts:
        key = alert["key"]
        timestamp = alert["timestamp"]…
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