What is monitoring frequency?

Example: A software engineer sets up Slack notifications for every single CI pipeline event — build started, tests passed, lint warnings, deployment queued. Within a week, she mutes the channel entirely. When a critical deployment fails on Friday afternoon, she misses it for three hours. Meanwhile, her colleague checks deployment status once at the end of each day and catches failures within his review window. The first engineer sampled too fast and created noise that destroyed the signal. The second sampled at a frequency matched to the rate of meaningful change.

This concept is part of Agent Monitoring in the How to Think curriculum.