Daily health check
monitor

Find here information about instrument health checks. This is a joint effort of Paranal Science Operations and of the Quality Control Group in Garching. Its intention is to provide quick quality feedback for the on-site QC process. It currently supports all VLT instruments.

Calibrations feeding the Health Check process are those which measure key instrument components. They are taken approximately daily. They are pipeline processed on Paranal. Their QC1 parameters are transferred to Garching and picked by an automatic process run by the QC group. Values of selected parameters are plotted in a Health Check plot, in order to provide comparison to earlier parameters. They are usually updated within a few hours. As time continues, Paranal data points are eventually overwritten by the final QC1 parameters as determined by the Garching pipeline.

The health check plots focus on the most recent, most important and regularly measured instrument components. The complete set of trending plots (including the historical ones and those with QC1 parameters which are not part of the Health Check process) is available from the QC1 pages (go to any instrument, and then to "Instrument Quality Control and Trending") maintained by the QC group. There you also find an option to download the QC1 parameters, and to link to the QC1 database. The instrument specific trending pages are linked below under "trending plots".

Find the Health Check plots linked in the green area. Find tutorial information and all available trending plots under 'trending plots'.

The process behind the Health Check Monitor is documented here.

IMG

 trending plots
 pipeline info

GIRAFFE frames

 trending plots: ECH | MOS
 pipeline info: ECH | MOS

ECH frames

bias | zeropoints | lamp effic