Monitoring without a war room
Signals, thresholds and dull dashboards

Good monitoring is quiet. It tracks a small number of signals per position, compares each with a threshold decided in advance, and raises its voice only when something crosses one.

Our rules of thumb

• A signal without a threshold is decoration.
• A threshold without an automated response is a notification, not protection.
• Every alert that fires gets a written review, even when nothing was lost.