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Control Center Operations

Monitor and manage the authority runtime through the control center dashboard.

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Implemented Capability

The control center dashboard is live in the console at /account/authority/control. It aggregates runtime pressure, graph health, anomalies, and auditable intervention actions.

Overview#

The control center provides a unified operational dashboard for the Intended authority runtime. It surfaces real-time metrics, policy deployment status, decision throughput, and system health in a single view.

Dashboard Sections#

Policy Status#

The policy status panel shows:

  • Active policy count and version
  • Last deployment timestamp
  • Pending approvals
  • Policy evaluation rate (decisions/second)

Decision Throughput#

Real-time metrics for intent evaluations:

  • Total evaluations in the current window
  • Allow/deny/require-approval breakdown
  • Average evaluation latency (p50, p95, p99)
  • Error rate

System Health#

Health indicators for runtime components:

  • Policy engine availability
  • Token signing service status
  • Audit pipeline lag
  • Connector health per integration

Alerting Configuration#

Alerting policy management remains API-driven, but control center now surfaces live operational pressure and links directly to interventions and drilldowns.

Planned Alert Types#

  • Evaluation latency threshold — triggers when p95 latency exceeds a configured threshold
  • Error rate spike — triggers when error rate exceeds baseline by a configurable percentage
  • Policy deployment failure — triggers on failed deployment attempts
  • Token signing degradation — triggers when signing service response time degrades
  • Audit pipeline lag — triggers when audit events fall behind by a configurable duration

Supporting Monitoring Alternatives#

Control center is the primary surface. These alternatives remain available for automation and external observability pipelines:

CLI Health Check#

bash
meritt health check --verbose

API Health Endpoints#

bash
# Readiness check
curl https://api.intended.so/readyz

# Liveness check
curl https://api.intended.so/healthz

# Metrics endpoint
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $Intended_API_KEY" \
  https://api.intended.so/metrics

Metrics API Response#

json
{
  "evaluations": {
    "total_24h": 145832,
    "allow_rate": 0.94,
    "deny_rate": 0.05,
    "pending_rate": 0.01,
    "p50_latency_ms": 12,
    "p95_latency_ms": 45,
    "p99_latency_ms": 120
  },
  "policies": {
    "active_count": 23,
    "last_deployed_at": "2026-03-08T14:30:00Z",
    "pending_approvals": 2
  },
  "health": {
    "policy_engine": "healthy",
    "token_signer": "healthy",
    "audit_pipeline": "healthy"
  }
}

Next Steps#