DASF-R-10.1 — Lack of audit and monitoring inference quality

Source: official compendium, AI Lifecycle Risks, row 51. Snapshot: 2026-10-22; source revision: DASF v 1.0.

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Risk mechanism

Effectively audit, track and assess the performance of machine learning models by monitoring inference tables to gain valuable insights into the model’s decision-making process and identify any discrepancies or anomalies.

These tables should include the model’s user or system making the request, inputs, and the corresponding predictions or outputs. Monitoring the model serving endpoints provides real-time audit in operational settings.

Applicability

Predictive ML Models · RAG - LLMs · Fine-tuned LLMs · Pre-trained LLMs · Foundational LLMs · External Models

Blank source cells remain null (unspecified); a source “No” means this default filter omits the risk; it does not establish absence in your architecture. Combine every deployment pattern in the system.

Impacts described by the source

AI system:

• False or Misleading Responses • Reduced Organisation Trust in Model Effectiveness and Performance • Unintended Model Outputs • Inconsistent or Unexpected Model Predictions • Poor Performance and Reliability of Predictions • Erosion of Customer Trust • Adversarial Data Drift • Regulatory Non-compliance • Failure to Achieve Organizational AI Strategy and Goals

Business:

• Financial Loss • Regulatory Fines and Judgement • Legal Fines • Customer Retention • Direct Business Interruption • Regulatory Fines and Judgement

Controls

• DASF-35 — Track model performance
• DASF-36 — Set up monitoring alerts
• DASF-37 — Set up inference tables for monitoring and debugging models
• DASF-55 — Monitor audit logs

Source control guidance

• DASF 35: Track model performance to evaluate quality • DASF 36: Set up monitoring alerts • DASF 37: Set up inference tables for monitoring and debugging models to capture incoming requests and outgoing responses to your model serving endpoint and log them in a table. Afterward, you can use the data in this table to monitor, debug and improve ML models and decide if these inferences are of quality to use as input to model training. • DASF 55: Monitor audit logs

Investigate and verify

Project adaptation: use the evidence workflow, then request investigate_risk with DASF-R-10.1. It returns the mechanism above, control-specific evidence requests, proposed tests and remediation acceptance criteria. Until evidence is supplied, the result is unverified. Use the finding template to record a concrete observation and residual risk.

Source-reported framework mappings

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Related

• Component 10
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