# OPS09-BP05 Learn the expected patterns of activity for operations
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 Establish patterns of operations activities to identify anomalous activity so that you can respond appropriately if necessary. 

 **Common anti-patterns:** 
+  Your deployment failure rate has increased substantially recently. You address each of the failures independently. You do not realize that the failures correspond to deployments by a new employee who is unfamiliar with the deployment management system. 

 **Benefits of establishing this best practice:** By learning patterns of behavior, you can recognize unexpected behavior and take action if necessary. 

 **Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established:** Medium 

## Implementation guidance
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+  Learn expected patterns of activity for operations: Establish patterns of operations activity to determine when behavior is outside of the expected values so that you can respond appropriately if required.