Server Monitoring And Observability Checklist Form
Use this checklist to review server monitoring coverage, observability tooling, alerting, dashboards, and follow-up actions for a server environment.
Server and Environment Details
Server Name or Hostname
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Server Role or Function
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Please Select
Web Server
Application Server
Database Server
Cache Server
File Server
Load Balancer
Monitoring Server
Other
Environment
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Please Select
Production
Staging
Development
Testing
Other
Platform / Operating System
Criticality or Business Purpose
*
Monitoring Coverage
What is currently monitored on this server?
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CPU
Memory
Disk
Network
Process health
Service availability
Application performance
Database health
Container health
Custom business metrics
Other
Overall monitoring coverage completeness
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Very incomplete
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Fully comprehensive
10
1 is Very incomplete, 10 is Fully comprehensive
Other monitoring coverage details
Logs, Traces, and Observability Tools
Logging Tool/Platform
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Metrics Tool/Platform
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Tracing/APM Tool/Platform
Alerting/Notification Tool/Platform
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Enabled Telemetry Sources
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Logs
Metrics
Traces
Synthetic Checks
Host Agents
Exporters
Custom Instrumentation
Observability Gaps or Tool Limitations
Alerting and Incident Readiness
Are alerts configured?
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Yes
No
Partial
Are alert thresholds tuned appropriately?
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Yes
No
Partially
Not sure
Alert channels in use
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Email
SMS
Chat
Pager
Ticketing
Webhook
Other
Primary escalation contact or team
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Incident response notes
Dashboards, SLOs, and Health Checks
Which dashboards are available?
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Infrastructure
Application performance
Service health
Business metrics
Other
Which health checks are in place?
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Liveness checks
Readiness checks
Dependency checks
Synthetic checks
Other
Dashboard link or name
Defined SLO or uptime target
What is being measured?
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Uptime
Availability
Both
Neither
Notes on latency, error rate, saturation, or other key service indicators
Findings and Follow-up Actions
Overall Observability Maturity
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Ad hoc
Basic
Defined
Managed
Optimized
Issues, Risks, or Missing Monitoring Coverage
Action Items
Review Date / Next Follow-up Date
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Month
 -
Day
Year
Date
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