Enterprise Application Monitoring Automation Checklist
Complete this checklist to document the current state of application monitoring automation, validate alerting and remediation coverage, and track remaining gaps or follow-up actions.
Monitoring Scope and Ownership
Application Name
*
Environment(s) Covered
*
Production
Staging
Development
Other
Business Owner / Team Name
*
Technical Owner / On-Call Team
*
Primary Monitoring Alert Contact Method
*
Please Select
Email
Phone
Chat Channel
Pager
Other
Current Monitoring Inventory
Application tier(s) or service(s) monitored
*
Frontend
Backend APIs
Database
Cache
Message Queue
Batch Jobs
Infrastructure
Third-party Integrations
Other
Monitoring platform/tool in use
*
Please Select
Datadog
Dynatrace
New Relic
Prometheus
Grafana
Splunk
Elastic Observability
CloudWatch
Azure Monitor
Custom/Other
Log, metric, and trace sources enabled
*
Application logs
System logs
Infrastructure metrics
Application metrics
Distributed traces
Cloud provider metrics
Database metrics
Network metrics
Synthetic checks
Other
Monitoring coverage by component
*
Rows
Alerting configured
Dashboards configured
Health checks configured
Frontend
1
2
3
Backend APIs
4
5
6
Database
7
8
9
Cache
10
11
12
Message Queue
13
14
15
Batch Jobs
16
17
18
Infrastructure
19
20
21
Third-party Integrations
22
23
24
Automation and Alerting Checklist
Automation Readiness Checklist
*
Rows
Complete
Partial
Not Configured
Alert rules configured
25
26
27
Alert severity levels defined
28
29
30
Escalation paths automated
31
32
33
Notification channels configured
34
35
36
Auto-remediation actions enabled
37
38
39
Runbook links attached
40
41
42
Suppression / maintenance windows supported
43
44
45
Notification Channels Configured
*
Email
Chat
SMS
Pager
Other
Alert Severity Levels Defined
*
Critical
High
Medium
Low
Informational
Escalation Paths Automated
*
Yes
Partial
No
Auto-remediation Actions Enabled
Yes
Partial
No
Runbook Links Attached
Yes
No
Suppression / Maintenance Windows Supported
*
Yes
Partial
No
Validation, Testing, and Reliability
Last Automation Test Date
*
 -
Month
 -
Day
Year
Date
Test Status
*
Passed
Failed
Partial
Not run
Failure Detection Coverage
*
Low
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
High
10
1 is Low, 10 is High
False-Positive Rate Assessment
*
Low
Medium
High
Unknown
Rollback/Fallback Procedure Available
*
Yes
No
Evidence or Notes for Gaps Found
Gaps, Actions, and Review
Known gaps or blockers
Action items with owner and due date
Review priority
*
High
Medium
Low
Target completion date
 -
Month
 -
Day
Year
Date
Final checklist confirmation
*
Yes
No
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