Terminology and Glossary

Use this page as the quick-reference version of the product vocabulary.

Term	Meaning
Watch	The monitoring definition for a workflow or operational expectation
Missed Action watch	A watch that expects check-ins and enters error when expected activity is missing
Notify Only watch	A watch that sends a notification when a check-in arrives, without missed-action monitoring
Check-in	The API signal sent by the workflow to report progress
Condition	The stateful monitored unit for the watch, queue, or machine
Active	The watch or condition is currently monitoring
Inactive	The watch or condition is not currently monitoring
Relax	Healthy state with no active error reasons
Error	Unhealthy state with one or more active error reasons
Fixed period	Check-in expectation based on fixed time boundaries
Cascading period	Check-in expectation based on time elapsed since the last check-in
Condition By Queue	Separate condition per queue
Condition By Machine	Separate condition per machine
Expected Machine Count	Requirement that enough workers report before the run is considered healthy
Outcome	Optional success or failure value carried with a check-in
Threshold monitoring	Quality rules applied to recent outcomes
Clear Errors	Explicit action that resets a condition's error state and threshold counters

For deeper detail, see Detailed Concepts (Legacy).