Daily — three minutes
- Open the dashboard, confirm no monitors are red.
- Scan the continuity feed for any in-progress workflows worth resuming.
- Glance at the last 24h of alerts — anything unusual gets a note.
Weekly — fifteen minutes
- Review every alert that fired. For each: real signal or noise? Action or tune?
- Close out any workflows that are done but still in the continuity feed.
- Capture one improvement into the monitoring backlog.
Monthly — one hour
- Audit which monitors still match what you care about. Prune the rest.
- Test alert delivery — silent failures of the alerting layer itself are the worst kind.
- Generate a snapshot report for stakeholders so monitoring is visible, not invisible.
Why the cadence matters
Monitoring is not a setup project, it's a maintenance discipline. The cadence above keeps it lightweight enough that nobody dreads it and frequent enough that drift gets caught quickly. The dashboard's continuity feed makes the routine concrete: there's always a visible list of what's pending.