Monitoring and Maintenance Plan
Project phase: Deployment and Maintenance
You describe how the delivered system stays trustworthy after the project ends: what gets monitored in production — service health, latency, input data drift, model performance where ground truth becomes available — with thresholds, alerts, and responsible owners. You describe the maintenance cycle for retraining and rollback, how new versions are validated before release, and the handover information a client needs to actually operate the system, so someone outside the team could keep it running and know when to intervene.
Starting Points
Key Points
- The plan is a standalone document that allows an external engineer to operate the system without your help.
- You have selected professional standards/methods for monitoring and justified why these are the best fit for this specific context.
- You have weighed different maintenance strategies (e.g., manual vs. automated retraining) and provided a well-founded recommendation.
- You have identified potential risks (e.g., model decay or data corruption) and included mitigation steps.
- The plan includes clear thresholds (e.g., "If latency > 200ms, trigger alert X") and assigned owners.
- The report is a standalone markdown document, made available in GitLab.