SOP — Weekly System Health Check (Generic Example)

Purpose

Perform a consistent weekly health check and capture a record of system status.

Audience

Ops/Support staff responsible for basic monitoring and recordkeeping.

Prerequisites

• Access to monitoring dashboard(s) and system status page
• Access to the weekly log (ticket, spreadsheet, or KB page)

Procedure

1. Open the weekly log and create a new entry for this week.
2. Verify telemetry freshness (last update within expected window).
3. Review critical alarms for the last 7 days; list top 3 recurring alarms.
4. Check communications uptime; record any outages.
5. Check power/backup health indicators (if applicable); record status.
6. Document any open follow-ups and assign an owner (name/role).

Week of:
Owner:
Telemetry freshness:
Critical alarms (top 3):
Comms uptime/outages:
Power/backup status:
Open follow-ups (owner + due date):
Notes:

Quality checks

• All fields completed; no “TBD”.
• Any abnormality has a follow-up item and owner.

Records

• Weekly log entry link or ID
• Summary paragraph (3–5 lines)

Changes

• v1.0 — Initial published sample.