## ADDED Requirements

### Requirement: Production monitoring covers key reliability signals
The system SHALL capture and expose reliability/performance metrics for core services.

#### Scenario: Metrics available for operations
- **WHEN** production system is running
- **THEN** dashboards expose API latency/error rate, scheduler freshness, and ingestion health signals

### Requirement: Alerting is actionable and threshold-based
The system SHALL send alerts on defined thresholds with clear operator guidance.

#### Scenario: Threshold breach alert
- **WHEN** a monitored metric breaches configured threshold
- **THEN** alert is emitted to configured channel
- **AND** alert includes service, metric, threshold, and suggested next action