Monitor

This skill is for production monitoring and incident response. For debugging specific bugs, use debug. For pre-launch readiness checks, use go-live. For security-specific monitoring (auth events, API abuse), use secure. For analytics and user behavior tracking, use analytics.

Don't Do Yet

• Don't pay for monitoring tools until you've outgrown the free tiers. UptimeRobot + Sentry free handles most early-stage apps.
• Don't set up DataDog, New Relic, or Grafana. These are enterprise tools. You don't need them with < 1,000 users.
• Don't build custom dashboards. Your hosting platform (Vercel, Railway) has built-in metrics. Use those first.
• Don't monitor everything. Three things matter at launch: is it up, are there errors, is it slow. That's it.

Monitoring Checklist