[OJFord]

But that's my point, it isn't for alerting about problems, some things have a 'status' that might be interesting, but isn't a problem, or something to fire an alert on necessarily.

You could have unintrusive notifications (inaudible etc.) to 'alert' to such statuses I suppose, if they were kept in view and not 'dismissed' (whatever that means for the medium they came in) - but then really you're just implementing a version of something like this Monitoror in your inbox, phone notification tray, Telegram channel, or whatever.

You're not going to rip out logging, prometheus, or services' that this connects to own UI just because you have alerting, so I don't see why you would this. It's like prometheus & grafana for higher level stuff. (Of course you could use those tools for this sort of monitoring too, but that's not really the point.)