MON · Continuous Monitoring & Human Oversight
MON-09Alerting and on-call coverage
Alerting and on-call coverage are defined for critical agents.
Critical agents have defined alerting rules and on-call coverage ensuring that anomalies, incidents, and system failures are surfaced to a responsible human within a documented latency. Alerting is not just monitoring: it ensures that a human who can act is notified when action is needed, at any time of day.
Table MON-09.1 · Maturity criteria · v.1.3
L1 to L5 · the lowest level in scope caps the agentControls exist informally; documentation is incomplete; no consistent review.
Controls are written down; ownership is assigned; review cadence is defined.
Controls are followed in practice; evidence is collected; deviations are tracked.
Alerting rules are defined for all critical agents; on-call rotation is documented and staffed; alert response latency is measured; at least one alert has been responded to within SLA or the alerting pipeline has been tested end-to-end.
Control effectiveness is measured against documented thresholds; trends are reported.
Controls evolve based on incident learning; maturity gains are evidenced over time.
The v1.3 edition publishes a control-specific criterion at L3 (Operated). The other levels apply the general ladder to this control; see the maturity ladder.
Evidence an assessor asks for
- E.1
Alerting rules are defined for all critical agents.
- E.2
On-call rotation is documented and staffed.
- E.3
Alert response latency is measured.
- E.4
At least one alert has been responded to within SLA or the alerting pipeline has been tested end-to-end.
Table MON-09.2 · Framework mappings
4 of 7 frameworks carry a control-level referenceMappings are directional: meeting this control evidences but does not by itself satisfy the external requirement. A middle dot means no control-level reference is published at this edition; see the crosswalk.
Cite this control
Human Intelligence. HI-AAF v1.3, MON-09 Alerting and on-call coverage. Public review edition, July 2026. https://humanintel.net/standard/mon/mon-09
Edition v.1.3 · July 2026 · Public review · Markdown · PDF
https://humanintel.net/standard/mon/mon-09
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