Redesigning a Dashboard Alert That Nobody Notices

An analytics dashboard has a "budget exceeded" alert that users routinely miss. The current design: the alert is a thin one-line banner, 13px gray text, positioned directly below a large, colorful hero chart that takes up most of the top of the screen. The banner sits flush against the chart with no gap, and flush against the next section (a dense data table) with no gap either — it's sandwiched tightly between two much more visually dominant elements.

1. Diagnose the hierarchy failure using the four levers from this subject — which levers is the alert losing on, specifically?
2. Propose a redesign that fixes the hierarchy, addressing each lever you identified.
3. Is this a visual design problem or a structural one, using the diagnostic question from this subject? Justify your answer.