# Nothing breaks quietly

> Substrait watches every tool it runs: crash detection, startup checks and request-level monitoring, with alerts to the builder and the owner about build questions, scan results and release status.

URL: https://substrait.build/capabilities/monitoring-and-alerts/  
Last updated: 2026-11-06

Substrait watches every tool it runs and tells the right person when something goes wrong. A crash, a failed start or a failing request reaches the tool's builder and owner, not a dashboard nobody opens.

## How it works

**Health.**
Substrait checks that every tool starts properly and detects when it crashes.
A release that cannot start does not replace the version that works.

**Requests.**
Substrait monitors the requests each tool serves, so a tool that starts failing is noticed before its users complain.

**Alerts to the right person.**
The builder and the owner of a tool receive its alerts: questions from the build, scan results and release status.
Alerts travel through Substrait's communications centre, so each person chooses where they arrive.

**Logs.**
A tool's owner asks their AI model why a request failed, and it reads the tool's runtime logs.

## Related

- [The communications centre: one pre-wired exchange for the whole organisation](https://substrait.build/capabilities/communications/): The communications centre is one central, pre-wired exchange that connects every alert, approval, notification and message across the organisation. Every tool built on Substrait calls it, so no tool builds its own. The company hooks in its own Slack, Google Chat, Teams, email or WhatsApp, and each person chooses the channel.
- [One click to live, through the security check](https://substrait.build/capabilities/one-command-go-live/): A builder sends a tool to Substrait with one command, through their AI model, and goes live with one click. Substrait promotes the exact build tested in dev to production, only through the security check.
- [A security command centre, built in](https://substrait.build/capabilities/security-command-centre/): Substrait gives the security team one console for every finding across every tool, opening on one page that answers how exposed the company is right now, in the organisation's own severity names.
- [See every tool your people built](https://substrait.build/capabilities/tool-registry/): Substrait registers every tool, agent, Slate, skill and knowledge base with an owner, a purpose, a risk tier and a version, and gives every one a switch that stops it.