What to monitor
Winners
Ads with strong CTR, CPA, ROAS, conversion rate, or other account-specific success metrics.
Waste
Ads spending without enough signal, weak CTR, poor conversion, or expensive acquisition.
Fatigue
Ads whose performance decays as frequency rises or the audience saturates.
Patterns
Hooks, formats, personas, proof points, and visuals that separate winners from losers.
The useful output
A good monitoring run should answer:- What should I pause?
- What should I scale?
- What should I iterate?
- Which creative pattern keeps winning?
- Which new ads should I make next?
Monitoring workflow
Set benchmark rules
Define what good and bad mean for your account: target CPA, CTR floor, spend threshold, frequency warning, or ROAS target.
Schedule it
Most monitoring should repeat. Use scheduled runs for weekly health checks, Monday creative concepts, or daily watchlists.Monitoring can recommend what to pause, scale, or replace. It should not be confused with unattended spend automation unless your workflow explicitly includes approval rules and the required platform permissions.