What is a potential outcome of not muting high-volume requests?

Not muting high-volume requests can lead to the generation of fake response-time degradation alerts. In environments where background noise from numerous requests can obscure the true performance metrics, failing to mute these high-volume requests results in alert fatigue and false positives. This can mislead teams into believing there are issues when, in fact, the requests are simply part of normal operations. By muting these requests, it allows for a clearer picture of genuine performance issues and helps in focusing on critical alerts that require attention, thereby enhancing the accuracy of monitoring and reducing unnecessary alerts.

The other choices do not highlight the main consequence of not managing high-volume requests effectively. Increased server uptime, improved user experience, and automatic service shutdowns do not directly correlate with the failure to mute high-volume requests in monitoring systems.