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Aleph Vigil · Sentinel Fleet

The Sentinel Fleet

Vigil grows through a fleet of narrowly scoped Sentinels. Each Sentinel watches a defined part of the environment, keeps enough state to recognize meaningful change, and reports when something deserves attention.

The Sentinel Fleet is how Vigil keeps expanding what Aleph can understand, protect, and improve across client environments.

How to read this catalog

Status reflects implementation evidence.

Each card shows a public status. A Sentinel is labeled Available only when it is implemented and approved for client deployment; until then it is shown as Pilot or Planned.

Status

Available
Implemented and approved for client deployment.
Pilot
Implemented and under controlled validation.
Planned
Approved roadmap capability, not yet production-ready.

Vigil behavior

Observe and report
Designed to observe its area and report meaningful change into Vigil.
Recommend
Designed to route recommended diagnostics or remediation into Bridge for review.
Bounded action, where authorized
Designed to support bounded, auditable action where the client has authorized it. Otherwise it recommends.

Network & Wi-Fi

8 Sentinels

WAN Path Quality Sentinel

Pilot

Designed to track the quality of a site's internet and WAN paths over time.

Watches
packet loss, latency, path availability
Designed to detect
Sustained or worsening loss, latency, or availability on a path compared with its own history.
Evidence
Path measurements over time, compared with the site's historical baseline.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Branch / site
  • CHEF
  • BOSS
  • MDC
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Progressive Wi-Fi Degradation Sentinel

Planned

Designed to detect gradual wireless-quality deterioration before a hard outage.

Watches
retries, disconnects, latency, AP load, client distribution
Designed to detect
Gradual deterioration that may become client-visible before a hard outage occurs.
Evidence
Available radio and network indicators, compared with historical behavior.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Branch / site
  • CHEF
  • BOSS
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

DNS Health Sentinel

Pilot

Designed to notice when name resolution becomes slow or unreliable.

Watches
resolution success, response time, resolver availability
Designed to detect
Name resolution becoming slow, inconsistent, or unavailable.
Evidence
Resolution checks against several resolvers, with response times compared to their own history.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Branch / site
  • Server
  • Cloud
  • MDC
  • BOSS
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

DHCP Health Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice when devices may soon be unable to join the network.

Watches
address pool usage, lease failures, DHCP service availability
Designed to detect
Address pools nearing exhaustion, or leases failing to be issued.
Evidence
Lease activity and pool usage over time.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Branch / site
  • CHEF
  • BOSS
  • MDC
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Route & Tunnel State Sentinel

Planned

Designed to follow the stability of routes and tunnels between sites and services.

Watches
route changes, tunnel state, reconnects
Designed to detect
Route instability or repeated tunnel reconnects.
Evidence
Route and tunnel state history.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Branch / site
  • Cloud
  • MDC
  • BOSS
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Failover / LTE Backup Sentinel

Planned

Designed to check that a backup connection is ready before it is needed.

Watches
backup path readiness, failover events, time spent on backup
Designed to detect
A backup path that is not ready, or a site running on backup longer than expected.
Evidence
Failover events and backup-path checks.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Branch / site
  • CHEF
  • BOSS
Plan fit
  • Care
  • Continuity

ISP Historical Degradation Sentinel

Planned

Designed to build a long-term picture of provider quality at a site.

Watches
long-term provider performance, recurring degradation windows
Designed to detect
Recurring or long-running provider quality patterns.
Evidence
Path quality history aggregated over weeks and months.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Branch / site
  • CHEF
  • BOSS
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

AP / Client Density Imbalance Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice wireless clients crowding onto some access points while others sit underused.

Watches
clients per access point, AP load, client roaming
Designed to detect
Uneven client distribution that can degrade the wireless experience.
Evidence
Client association and AP load over time.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Branch / site
  • CHEF
  • BOSS
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Infrastructure

8 Sentinels

Sentinel Dead-Man / Coverage Health

Pilot

Designed to notice when a Sentinel stops reporting, so silence is not mistaken for health.

Watches
Sentinel check-ins, expected coverage, stale data
Designed to detect
A Sentinel that has gone quiet, fallen behind, or left an expected area without coverage.
Evidence
Expected check-ins compared with the check-ins actually received.
Vigil behavior
Observe and report
Environments
  • Branch / site
  • Server
  • Cloud
  • MDC
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Backup Runtime & Success Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice a backup process becoming less healthy before the day it fails completely.

Watches
job outcome, duration, retries, missed windows
Designed to detect
Backups becoming slower, less reliable, or missing their window.
Evidence
Backup job history, duration, and outcome over time.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Server
  • Cloud
  • MDC
  • BOSS
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Storage Capacity & Latency Trend Sentinel

Planned

Designed to spot storage that is filling or slowing at a rate that points to a future problem.

Watches
free capacity, growth rate, storage latency
Designed to detect
Capacity or latency trends heading toward a limit.
Evidence
Capacity and latency measurements trended over time.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Server
  • Cloud
  • MDC
  • BOSS
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Service Flapping Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice a service that keeps restarting, even when it looks up at any given moment.

Watches
service restarts, state changes, uptime
Designed to detect
Repeated restarts or state changes over hours or days.
Evidence
Service state history.
Vigil behavior
Bounded action, where authorized
Environments
  • Server
  • Cloud
  • MDC
  • BOSS
  • CHEF
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Certificate / Credential Expiry Sentinel

Planned

Designed to give early notice of certificates and credentials approaching expiry.

Watches
certificate expiry dates, credential expiry dates
Designed to detect
Certificates or credentials nearing expiry.
Evidence
Expiry information read from certificates and credential metadata.
Vigil behavior
Bounded action, where authorized
Environments
  • Server
  • Cloud
  • MDC
  • BOSS
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Host Health Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice resource pressure or hardware warnings developing on a host.

Watches
CPU, memory, disk, hardware status
Designed to detect
Sustained resource pressure or emerging hardware warnings.
Evidence
Host resource and hardware indicators over time.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Server
  • Cloud
  • MDC
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Virtualization Health Sentinel

Planned

Designed to check that virtual machines and their hosts are in their expected state.

Watches
virtual machine state, host state, resource contention
Designed to detect
Virtual machines not in their expected state, or contention building across hosts.
Evidence
Virtualization state compared with the expected configuration.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Server
  • MDC
Plan fit
  • Care
  • Continuity

UPS / Power Health Sentinel

Planned

Designed to detect battery or power degradation before it affects continuity.

Watches
battery health, estimated runtime, on-battery events
Designed to detect
Declining battery health or reduced runtime.
Evidence
UPS status readings and power events.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Server
  • MDC
  • Branch / site
  • Physical systems
Plan fit
  • Care
  • Continuity

Security & Identity

6 Sentinels

Endpoint Security-Control Health Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice when an endpoint stops reporting or a protection service becomes unhealthy.

Watches
endpoint check-ins, protection service status, control state
Designed to detect
Endpoints that go quiet or lose a protection control.
Evidence
Endpoint and security-control status reports.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Server
  • Cloud
  • Branch / site
  • BOSS
  • CHEF
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Privileged Identity Change Sentinel

Planned

Designed to surface unexpected changes to privileged roles and administrative accounts.

Watches
privileged role membership, administrative account changes
Designed to detect
Privilege changes that were not expected.
Evidence
Identity and role-change records.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Cloud
  • Server
  • BOSS
  • ERP
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Configuration Drift Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice configuration moving away from its approved state.

Watches
configuration compared with an approved baseline
Designed to detect
Changes that move a system away from its recorded baseline.
Evidence
Current configuration compared with a recorded baseline.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Server
  • Cloud
  • MDC
  • Branch / site
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Unexpected Listener / Exposure Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice a service listening or reachable where it was not expected.

Watches
listening services, reachable ports
Designed to detect
New or unexpected exposure compared with the expected service inventory.
Evidence
Observed listeners compared with the expected service inventory.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Server
  • Cloud
  • MDC
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Authentication Anomaly Sentinel

Planned

Designed to surface sign-in activity that departs from an account's usual pattern.

Watches
sign-in failures, unusual sign-in patterns, multi-factor state
Designed to detect
Sign-in behavior that differs meaningfully from history.
Evidence
Authentication records compared with historical patterns.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Cloud
  • BOSS
  • ERP
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Sentinel Tamper / Unexpected Stop Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice a Sentinel that stops unexpectedly or changes outside an approved change.

Watches
Sentinel run state, Sentinel configuration integrity
Designed to detect
Unexpected stops or unapproved changes to a Sentinel.
Evidence
Sentinel self-reports and integrity checks.
Vigil behavior
Observe and report
Environments
  • Server
  • Cloud
  • MDC
  • Branch / site
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Applications & Integrations

5 Sentinels

API Availability & Latency Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice an API becoming slower or less available than usual.

Watches
availability, response time, error responses
Designed to detect
Availability or latency drifting from normal behavior.
Evidence
Scheduled requests and response measurements over time.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Cloud
  • Server
  • BOSS
  • ERP
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Integration Failure Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice data that stops moving between connected systems, or moves with errors.

Watches
sync jobs, handoffs between systems, failed transfers
Designed to detect
Integrations that stall or fail.
Evidence
Integration run history and error records.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Cloud
  • BOSS
  • CHEF
  • ERP
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Queue Backlog / Stall Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice work piling up or no longer being processed.

Watches
queue depth, age of oldest item, processing rate
Designed to detect
Growing backlogs or stalled processing.
Evidence
Queue depth and throughput over time.
Vigil behavior
Bounded action, where authorized
Environments
  • Server
  • Cloud
  • BOSS
  • CHEF
  • ERP
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Dependency Chain Sentinel

Planned

Designed to connect symptoms in one application to a failing service it depends on.

Watches
health of upstream services an application relies on
Designed to detect
A failing dependency that may explain symptoms appearing elsewhere.
Evidence
Dependency health checks mapped to the applications that rely on them.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Cloud
  • Server
  • BOSS
  • CHEF
Plan fit
  • Care
  • Continuity

Application Error Trend Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice application errors rising over time, including after a change.

Watches
error rates, error types
Designed to detect
Error levels climbing above their normal range.
Evidence
Application error counts trended against normal levels.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Cloud
  • Server
  • BOSS
  • ERP
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Business & ERP

4 Sentinels

ERP Workflow Exception Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice ERP workflows ending in exceptions more often than usual.

Watches
workflow states, exception queues, business-rule failures
Designed to detect
A rise in workflow exceptions or business-rule failures.
Evidence
Workflow status and exception records.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • ERP
  • BOSS
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Stalled Approval Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice approvals that have waited longer than expected.

Watches
pending approvals, time waiting
Designed to detect
Approvals holding up work beyond their expected time.
Evidence
Approval status and age.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • ERP
  • BOSS
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Transaction Failure Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice transactions failing or being rejected at an unusual rate.

Watches
failed transactions, rejected transactions
Designed to detect
Transaction failure rates above their normal level.
Evidence
Transaction outcome records.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • ERP
  • BOSS
  • CHEF
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Reconciliation Drift Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice records in connected systems drifting out of agreement.

Watches
differences between systems that should agree
Designed to detect
Growing mismatches between systems of record.
Evidence
Periodic comparisons between the systems involved.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • ERP
  • BOSS
Plan fit
  • Care
  • Continuity

Physical & Environmental

5 Sentinels

Temperature Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice temperatures moving outside an expected range, or trending toward it.

Watches
room temperature, equipment temperature
Designed to detect
Temperatures leaving, or heading out of, their expected range.
Evidence
Temperature sensor readings over time.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Physical systems
  • MDC
  • CHEF
  • Branch / site
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Refrigeration Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice refrigeration that is struggling to hold its target temperature.

Watches
cold-storage temperature, temperature recovery over time
Designed to detect
Refrigeration drifting from its target or recovering more slowly than usual.
Evidence
Refrigeration temperature readings over time.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • CHEF
  • Physical systems
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Power-State Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice loss or instability of power at a site or piece of equipment.

Watches
power presence, power events
Designed to detect
Power loss or repeated power instability.
Evidence
Power-state readings and events.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Physical systems
  • MDC
  • CHEF
  • Branch / site
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Environmental Sensor Health Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice a sensor that has gone silent or is reporting implausible values.

Watches
sensor check-ins, sensor battery level, reading plausibility
Designed to detect
Silent sensors or readings that do not make physical sense.
Evidence
Sensor check-ins and reading history.
Vigil behavior
Recommend
Environments
  • Physical systems
  • MDC
  • CHEF
Plan fit
  • Observe
  • Care
  • Continuity

Physical Access-State Sentinel

Planned

Designed to notice doors or enclosures left open, or opened at unexpected times.

Watches
door state, enclosure state
Designed to detect
Access points left open or opened outside expected times.
Evidence
Access-state readings and events.
Vigil behavior
Observe and report
Environments
  • Physical systems
  • MDC
  • Branch / site
Plan fit
  • Care
  • Continuity

Plan fit is indicative: the Sentinels that apply to an environment, and the action authority they carry, are agreed with each client. Final commercial scope, pricing, and service commitments are established per engagement.

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