Keep watch on a service without writing every rule first

Describe in plain language what a service should look like, including the noise you expect, and a watcher checks it on a schedule. This journey explains what Assistant Watchers are and when to use one, then walks you through creating, calibrating, running, and reviewing a watcher in your Grafana Cloud stack.

What you’ll learn

Here’s what this journey covers:

• What a watcher is: What it checks and the assessments it reports.
• When to use one: The kinds of monitoring work a watcher suits.
• How it differs from an alert rule: You describe intent instead of writing a condition, and Assistant can recommend either or both for a service.
• How to create one: Keep the scope narrow, give context Assistant can’t infer from telemetry, and let Assistant build the checks from your data.
• How to read a result: Trigger a run, check the standing verdict, and review the evidence behind it.

Journey duration

~20-30 minutes