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# Monitors

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Monitors allow you to gain awareness of when your users' behavior changes, maintain data availability through data platform policy changes, ensure access patterns remain consistent for your data controls to remain effective, and be notified about anomalies.

## [Manage monitors and observations](/2024.3/detect-your-activity/monitors/create-monitor.md)

This guide illustrates how to create a monitor to generate user activity metrics based on query events.

## [Detect monitors reference guide](/2024.3/detect-your-activity/monitors/detect-monitors-reference-guide.md)

This guide explains the design and requirements for monitors and the contexts in which to use them.


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