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Review monitoring system design quarterly to audit whether…
Review monitoring system design quarterly to audit whether tracked metrics still correlate with outcomes that actually matter.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good… (Goodhart's Law) and Single-loop learning adjusts actions within existing… (double-loop learning). Prescribes meta-level examination of monitoring infrastructure itself, not just agent performance.
Source Lessons
Monitoring informs optimization
Monitoring without action is observation theater — data must drive decisions.
Monitoring fatigue
Too much monitoring data overwhelms attention and leads to ignoring signals that matter. The solution is not more data — it is fewer, sharper signals routed to the right layer of attention.