Monad Testnet monitoring boundary

Monitor component state (monad-bft, monad-execution, monad-rpc), local/reference progress, restart count, bounded errors, storage/inodes, time synchronization and public endpoint identity. Measure validator participation/signing separately from process health; an active process or advancing height is not a signing-health verdict.

Alert design

Compare local progress with an independently measured public reference, then alert only on state changes and send a recovery notice when evidence returns. Record comparison source, measured time, threshold, missing-data behavior and notification delivery. Treat a failed or stale external reference as unknown rather than calling the node unhealthy.

Security

Keep bot tokens, webhooks, private endpoints and host identity outside the guide and repository. Alert delivery requires separately approved secret-managed configuration. This guide does not create a bot, timer, alert, metrics listener or firewall change.

For advanced telemetry, verify release compatibility, overhead, data retention and listener privacy before collectors. Do not treat ledger/event data as complete archival history without its own coverage contract.