monitoring

Heartbeats, conditions and taints are the only vocabulary the control plane understands. NPD translates journald and kernel ring messages into that vocabulary; custom plugins carry your hardware's dialect.

Most insider incidents are boring: a departing engineer copies a repo, a contractor keeps a token. Buy hygiene rather than surveillance, and protect the culture that makes people report their own mistakes.

Latency is flat, errors are zero, and the answers are worse. Quality regression is invisible to every metric a platform team normally owns, which is why it needs its own pipeline.

Before blaming the model, check whether it is being fed the same thing it was trained on. Most of the gap is a pipeline difference, and pipeline differences are a platform problem with a platform fix.