The Quality Check system architecture for Son-Of-X-Shooter SOXS

TL;DR

This paper presents the architecture of a monitoring system for the SOXS spectrograph, featuring a no-SQL database for time-series data, automated KPI monitoring, and an interface for pipeline integration, enhancing operational efficiency.

Contribution

The paper introduces an innovative no-SQL database approach and a comprehensive monitoring architecture for SOXS, improving automation and support team efficiency.

Findings

Effective no-SQL database for time-series data

Automated KPI monitoring reduces manual oversight

High-quality visual dashboards for support teams

Abstract

We report the implemented architecture for monitoring the health and the quality of the Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) spectrograph for the New Technology Telescope in La Silla at the European Southern Observatory. Briefly, we report on the innovative no-SQL database approach used for storing time-series data that best suits for automatically triggering alarm, and report high-quality graphs on the dashboard to be used by the operation support team. The system is designed to constantly and actively monitor the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) metrics, as much automatically as possible, reducing the overhead on the support and operation teams. Moreover, we will also detail about the interface designed to inject quality checks metrics from the automated SOXS Pipeline (Young et al. 2022).