Who monitors the monitoring? Design meta-monitoring so a dead collector never hides an outage.

Monitoring dies silently: stuck alert queues, full TSDBs, collectors killed inside the same blast radius. Layer independent checks and a heartbeat so absence of signal pages louder than any red dashboard.

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