Monitoring

A practical example

Example: a team sets an alert if the nightly data-sync completes later than 6 a.m. or if workflow error rates exceed 2% in any hour, so on-call staff investigate before customers notice missing data.

What to evaluate before investing

• Ask which metrics are tracked out of the box and whether custom metrics can be defined per workflow.
• Check how alerts are delivered, email, webhook, chat, and whether escalation paths are configurable.
• Confirm alert thresholds support sustained conditions, not just single spikes, to reduce noise.

Limitations and tradeoffs

Tradeoff: monitoring only covers what you predefined; unanticipated failure modes pass silently, which is why it pairs with observability rather than replacing it.