Monitoring & Observability
Continuous monitoring of your Smart Money API integration ensures 99.9% uptime. Monitor response times, error rates, and business metrics (signals generated, trades executed). This guide covers metrics collection, dashboarding, and alerting.
Key Metrics to Monitor
- API Health: Response time (p50, p95, p99), error rate, request count, cache hit rate
- Business Metrics: Whale signals detected, miner capitulation events, exchange flow reversals, trade execution count
- Resource Usage: CPU, memory, disk usage, network bandwidth, concurrent connections
- Data Quality: Staleness of whale data, miner metrics freshness, price update latency
Dashboards
Create real-time dashboards showing API status, signal generation rate, recent whale movements, exchange flows, and market metrics. Use tools like Grafana, DataDog, or custom solutions. Update dashboards every 5-10 seconds for real-time monitoring.
Alerting Rules
Alert when: API error rate exceeds 1%, p95 latency > 2 seconds, webhook delivery failures, API quota usage > 80%, business logic errors (unexpected signal types), data staleness > 15 minutes.
Incident Response
On alerting, auto-trigger incident response: page on-call engineer, post to incident channel, create runbook, execute failover procedures. Have manual trading procedures ready if automation fails. Root cause analysis within 24 hours.