The criticality of the alerts should be classified, and presented with the alert. Users should have the ability to filter non-critical messages on certain platforms.

Unfortunately, some systems either don't track criticality, or some of the alerts are tagged with the wrong level.

(One example of the latter is the Ruckus WAP, which has a warning message tagged at the highest level of criticality, so about two or three times a month, I see the critical alert: "wmi_unified_mgmt_rx_event_handler-1864 : MGMT frame, ia_action 0x0 ia_catageory 0x3 status 0x0", which should be just an informational level alert, with nothing to be done about it. I've reported this bug to Ruckus a few times over the past five years, but they don't seem to care.)

In reality users will keep everything on default.