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Sentinels are the core building blocks for automated quality checks in Maitai. A Sentinel defines:
  • What to evaluate (its directive + examples)
  • How serious it is (severity)
  • Optionally, how to qualify inputs and how to suggest corrections
Sentinels are associated with an Intent Group, and they run against your live production traffic, which is why they live under Observe, alongside Monitors. Their results show up on Request pages, on the Sentinel detail page, and in the Events feed.

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Where to manage Sentinels

In the Portal, go to Observe > Sentinels for the top-level view (requests flagged by severity, with a detail page per Sentinel). You can also open an Intent Group and use its Sentinels tab to manage the sentinels scoped to that group.

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How Sentinels relate to Evaluations

  • An Evaluation is the act of running one or more Sentinels on a request (producing per-sentinel results like PASS / FAULT).
  • You review these results on the individual Request page (see Evaluating a Request) and on the Sentinel detail page.

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What a Sentinel can contain

When editing a Sentinel, you’ll see:
  • Name and Severity
  • Up to three stages: Qualification, Evaluation, Correction, each with a directive and examples
  • Include options (what context is included in the sentinel’s evaluation input)
Next: Generating Sentinels.