App-level monitoring

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Rationale
The staggering backlog of the job queue on the English Wikipedia shortly after the deployment of MediaWiki 1.17 showed the need for system health monitoring of application-level, MediaWiki-specific parameters.

Timeline

 * Sam Reed started on this large effort and got stuck, and so this is now on hold till he or someone else can address it again. Sumanah 23:44, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Additional documents

 * User requirements:
 * Specifications:
 * Software design document:
 * Test plan:
 * Documentation plan:
 * User interface design docs:
 * Schedule:
 * Task management:
 * Release management plan:
 * Communications plan:
 * Status updates