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Engineering Stage

ES-113 — Operations and Monitoring

Operate the deployed scope while monitoring behavior, preserving operational evidence, managing incidents, tracking risks, and enforcing release and operational limits.

Deployment and Operations Monitoring Evidence Next: ES-114

ES-113 Stage Manifest

Manifest purpose

This manifest is the structured contract for ES-113.

Stage identity

Field Value
Stage ID ES-113
Stage Name Operations and Monitoring
Stage Family Deployment and Operations
Stage Type Operations, monitoring, and evidence production
Estimated Effort Continuous during approved operation or review window
Prerequisites ES-112 — Deployment and Transition
Previous Stage ES-112 — Deployment and Transition
Next Stage ES-114 — Post-Release Learning and Stewardship
Primary Output Operations and monitoring evidence package
Publication Status Production-ready

Stage mission

Operate the deployed scope while monitoring behavior, preserving operational evidence, managing incidents, tracking risks, and enforcing release and operational limits.

Primary engineering question

Is the deployed system operating within approved limits, and what evidence shows whether it should continue, pause, stop, or change?

Inputs

Input Required Source
Deployment readiness summary Yes docs/deployment/deployment_readiness_summary.md
Deployment scope Yes docs/deployment/deployment_scope.md
Deployment execution record Yes docs/deployment/deployment_execution_record.md
Transition communication Yes docs/deployment/transition_communication.md
Access and data transition record Yes docs/deployment/access_and_data_transition_record.md
Rollback validation record Yes docs/deployment/rollback_validation_record.md
Post-deployment check Yes docs/deployment/post_deployment_check.md
Operational risk register Yes docs/operations/operational_risk_register.md

Outputs

Output Repository Location
Operations monitoring overview docs/monitoring/operations_monitoring_overview.md
Monitoring log docs/monitoring/monitoring_log.md
Operational event log docs/monitoring/operational_event_log.md
Incident log docs/monitoring/incident_log.md
Access and data monitoring docs/monitoring/access_and_data_monitoring.md
Guardrail monitoring docs/monitoring/guardrail_monitoring.md
AI monitoring record docs/monitoring/ai_monitoring_record.md
User feedback log docs/monitoring/user_feedback_log.md
Risk and issue updates docs/monitoring/risk_and_issue_updates.md
Operations monitoring summary docs/monitoring/operations_monitoring_summary.md

Required evidence

  • deployment-to-monitoring evidence;
  • monitoring log evidence;
  • operational event evidence;
  • incident evidence;
  • access and data monitoring evidence;
  • guardrail monitoring evidence;
  • AI monitoring evidence;
  • feedback evidence;
  • risk and issue update evidence;
  • transition evidence.

Completion criteria

ES-113 is complete when monitoring scope is defined, monitoring checks are recorded, operational events are recorded, incidents are recorded or explicitly absent, access and data limits are reviewed, guardrails are monitored, AI status is monitored, feedback is captured, risks and issues are updated, and ES-114 readiness is documented.

Success criteria

ES-113 succeeds when ES-114 can begin post-release learning and stewardship with enough operational evidence to identify lessons, improvements, unresolved risks, governance concerns, and next actions.

Risks if skipped

Skipping ES-113 may result in unobserved operational failure, lost feedback, hidden scope expansion, unrecorded incidents, weak stewardship, and missed improvement opportunities.

Maintenance notes

Operations and monitoring evidence should be updated continuously during the approved operation or review window. Monitoring should also be updated after material scope, access, data, AI status, support, incident, or risk changes.

Continue to ES-114

Begin post-release learning and stewardship using the operational evidence, incidents, feedback, risks, and monitoring summary from ES-113.

Continue to ES-114 →