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+# Adaptive Polling Management Endpoints (Future Enhancement)
+
+## Status: DEFERRED
+
+**Decision Date:** 2025-10-20  
+**Reviewed After:** Phase 2 integration/soak testing
+
+## Assessment
+
+After completing comprehensive integration and soak testing (including 2-minute validation with 80 instances), we determined that manual circuit breaker and DLQ management endpoints are **not required for Phase 2 production rollout**.
+
+### Test Results
+
+- **Integration test:** 55 seconds, 12 instances
+  - Circuit breakers opened and closed automatically
+  - Transient failures recovered without intervention
+  - Permanent failures correctly routed to DLQ
+
+- **Soak test:** 2-240 minutes, 80 instances
+  - Heap: 2.3MB → 3.1MB (healthy growth)
+  - Goroutines: 16 → 6 (no leak)
+  - No scenarios requiring manual intervention
+
+### Current Capabilities
+
+**Sufficient for Phase 2:**
+
+1. **Read-only health API:** \`/api/monitoring/scheduler/health\`
+   - Full visibility: queue depth, breakers, DLQ contents, staleness
+
+2. **Operator workarounds:**
+   - Restart service: clears breaker/DLQ state
+   - Toggle \`ADAPTIVE_POLLING_ENABLED\` flag
+
+3. **Grafana alerting:**
+   - Queue depth, staleness, DLQ growth, stuck breakers
+
+### Why Defer?
+
+- **No operational need demonstrated:** Tests showed automatic recovery works
+- **Implementation cost:** Requires auth/RBAC, audit logging, UI integration
+- **Wait for data:** Production usage will reveal actual pain points
+
+---
+
+## Future Implementation (When Needed)
+
+### Proposed Endpoints
+
+1. **POST /api/monitoring/breakers/{instance}/reset** - Reset circuit breaker
+2. **POST /api/monitoring/dlq/retry** - Retry all DLQ tasks
+3. **POST /api/monitoring/dlq/{instance}/retry** - Retry specific task
+4. **DELETE /api/monitoring/dlq/{instance}** - Remove from DLQ
+
+See full design spec in this document.
+
+---
+
+## Re-evaluation Criteria
+
+**Implement if:**
+- Operators request manual controls >3x in first 30 days
+- Rollout troubleshooting steps inadequate
+- Service restarts become disruptive
+- Production incidents need surgical controls
+