The right shape for ops monitoring is "email me when something is off," not "email me a dashboard every night." The security-watch cron sweeps the previous day's audit log against a small set of anomaly patterns: signup volume vs. rolling baseline, DELETE bursts beyond a per-actor threshold, lockout cascades that might indicate a credential-stuffing attempt, AI classifier blackouts (model down, fallback path hit), inquiries stuck in a state past their stage SLA.
If nothing trips, the cron exits silently. If anything trips, an email lands with the matching audit rows inlined and a one-paragraph summary of what looks unusual. Three months in, you stop reading emails for what's working and only look when there's a subject line. That's the discipline.