Production operations
Production monitoring
Observing system behaviour and outcomes after deployment.
Definition
Production monitoring tracks quality, errors, safety events, latency, cost, usage, overrides and downstream outcomes.
Why it matters
Pre-deployment tests cannot represent every live input, dependency or user behaviour.
Related concepts
- Model or system drift
Performance changing as models, data, users or environments evolve.
- Continuous evaluation
Rerunning tests as a system and its environment change.
- Operational fitness
Whether a system works reliably within real service constraints.