Monitoring

Purpose

Define how a deployed product is observed after release and deployment.

Monitoring responsibilities

• Confirm the product is healthy after deployment
• Observe logs, metrics, and alerts where available
• Detect regressions, failures, and operational drift
• Feed incidents and findings back into maintenance and iteration

Health checks

A deployed product should define health checks that answer whether the service is ready and functioning as expected.

Operations handoff

Monitoring should make it clear when a product has moved from deployment into steady-state operation.