Successfully monitoring zotero is a difficult problem to solve currently as the software is not written by us and does not conform to our best practices for a service. Citoid however is a service that does conform so we have nice dashboards and graphs [1]. Since zotero is only ever accessed by Citoid, that's the set of operations we only care about, so we should alert on

• a very low number of successful requests to zotero
• very high number of failed requests to zotero

[1] https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/NJkCVermz/citoid?refresh=5m&orgId=1