Monitoring, Drift & Reliability

Drift detection, shadow deploys, canaries, rollback and the on-call reality of owning a model.

Module 07.6 · Advanced
Free

8h · 8 lessons · 1 challenge

Before this: Inference Optimization & Serving

About this module

Models degrade quietly. Nothing errors; the metric just drifts down for six weeks. This module covers the monitoring that catches that — input drift, prediction drift, delayed labels — and the deployment machinery that makes a fix safe to ship.

Includes incident response for ML systems, which is a genuine differentiator in senior interviews.

After this module you can

8 lessons

Lesson 1
What to monitor: inputs, predictions, outcomes
Kind
Concept
Length
50 min
Lesson 2
Drift detection and its false alarms
Kind
Concept
Length
50 min
Lesson 3
Delayed labels and proxy metrics
Kind
Concept
Length
45 min
Lesson 4
Shadow, canary and staged rollout
Kind
Concept
Length
50 min
Lesson 5
Incident response and postmortems for models
Kind
Concept
Length
45 min
Lesson 6
Drift Watch: catch it before the quarter ends
Kind
Interactive
Length
40 min
Lesson 7
Instrument a deployed model end to end
Kind
Lab
Length
90 min
Lesson 8
Checkpoint: the model is degrading
Kind
Checkpoint
Length
25 min

The challenge: Drift Watch

Six months of production telemetry, replayed. Raise the alarm too early and you cry wolf; too late and the quarter is lost.

Worth 550 XP.

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