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 - Fabric / readiness / Velocity exposure final cross-component verification
 - game server subdomain / player connection method verification
 
+### Monitoring / observability
+- normalize game/dev Alloy monitoring contract across API discovery, agent-written Alloy labels, Prometheus targets, and Grafana dashboards
+- keep dynamic game/dev discovery on API -> sync script -> file_sd and verify automatic add/remove behavior for new containers
+- finish game/dev template cleanup so Alloy is standard and `node-exporter` is removed from those templates
+- keep OPNsense plugin and PBS monitoring as explicit platform exceptions while Linux-managed targets converge on Alloy
+
 ### Notifications / launch polish
 - email notifications across backend contract + Portal UX
 - remove stray `testdameon` / `testdaemon` binary from Portal repo