What Monitoring Surfaces
The alerts that matter. Not noise.
OpsCanvas monitoring is organized around signals that carry operational accountability, not raw log volume. Every alert traces back to a specific resource, owner, and state change in the Context Graph.
New high-risk AI agent detected
An agent has appeared in your environment with elevated permissions or broad blast radius that was not present in the prior inventory. Requires immediate review by the platform or security owner.
oscar: New agent detected — service-account: ml-inference-prod
Permissions: S3:*, EC2:Describe*, IAM:PassRole
Blast radius: HIGH — 34 downstream resources
Action: Review required before next deployment cycle
Major resilience drift detected
A material change to your backup coverage or RTO/RPO configuration has occurred since the last assessment. A critical workload has moved outside protected status or recovery targets have diverged significantly from live state.
oscar: Backup gap detected — payments-db-prod (RDS)
Last backup: 9 days ago — RPO target: 24 hours
Configuration change: backup policy removed 8 days ago
Impact: HIGH — board-level continuity commitment affected
Governance gap widening
Configurable thresholds for agent governance coverage, policy enforcement, or compliance framework requirements have been crossed. The gap is not critical yet but is trending in the wrong direction based on the prior two reassessments.
oscar: Governance coverage declining — AI agents
Agents with documented policies: 11 of 17 (was 14 of 17)
Three new agents detected without governance records
Trend: Declining for 2 consecutive assessment cycles
Cost regression detected
A configurable spend threshold has been crossed, or token cost trajectory for one or more AI agents has accelerated significantly from prior-period baseline. Attribution is surfaced to the specific resource, agent, or team responsible.
oscar: Cost regression — customer-service-agent
30-day spend: $18,400 (prior period: $4,200)
Trajectory: 4.4x acceleration in 30 days
Likely cause: loop detected in fulfillment-check workflow
New zombie candidates identified
Resources have crossed the activity threshold for orphan candidacy since the last assessment run. Ownership attribution and safe-removal classification are included so the team can act without investigation.
oscar: 12 new zombie candidates since last scan
Group A (safe to remove): 8 resources, est. $2,100/mo savings
Group B (verify with owner): 4 resources
Largest: analytics-staging-cluster — $1,400/mo, 90 days inactive
Monthly posture summary ready
Your scheduled reassessment is complete. The updated report includes the current posture across all monitored categories, delta from prior run, trend indicators on each gap category, and any items that have crossed into critical or standard alert status this cycle.
oscar: May 2026 posture summary ready
Backup coverage: 94% (up 3% from April)
Agent inventory: 17 agents, 3 new, 1 decommissioned
Cost delta: +$4,200 vs April — attributed to ml-inference-prod