diff --git a/docs/requirements/Component-CentralUI.md b/docs/requirements/Component-CentralUI.md
index 43e23753..48c8fe52 100644
--- a/docs/requirements/Component-CentralUI.md
+++ b/docs/requirements/Component-CentralUI.md
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Per-leaf alarm rendering (leaf nodes are individual conditions for native alarms
 - **Live updates** — the page is driven by a **transient, per-site central live alarm cache** (`ISiteAlarmLiveCache`, owned by the Communication component; see [Component-Communication](Component-Communication.md)). On site select the page subscribes to the cache; the cache runs one shared, reference-counted per-site aggregator that **seeds** from the snapshot fan-out and then stays warm on a single **site-wide, alarm-only** `SubscribeSite` gRPC stream (seed-then-stream, dedup by `(InstanceUniqueName, AlarmName, SourceReference)`). Applied deltas raise an in-process change event (mirroring `IDeploymentStatusNotifier`) that the Blazor circuit pushes to the browser via `StateHasChanged()` — no new SignalR hub. `AlarmSummaryService.BuildFromLiveAlarms` rebuilds the roll-up + rows from the cache's current alarm set. The cache is **purely in-memory on the active central node** — there is still **no persisted central alarm store**; on a NodeA↔NodeB failover the new active node re-seeds from scratch.
 - **View** — roll-up tiles (total active, worst severity, unacked count, per-`AlarmKind` counts) plus a flat, sortable, filterable table. Filters cover instance, `AlarmKind` (Computed / NativeOpcUa / NativeMxAccess), state, acked/unacked, severity threshold, and name search.
 - **Read-only** — there are no ack / shelve / suppress controls (native alarms remain read-only by design).
-- **Refresh** — manual refresh button plus the 15s poll timer (mirroring the Health dashboard), now retained as a **fallback + `NotReporting` authority** behind the live cache: when the cache reports `IsLive`, the page renders live-cache state; when a stream is unhealthy or a site has not yet seeded, the poll keeps the page fresh so a stream failure never blanks it. When live, the poll updates only the `NotReporting` list and leaves the row set to the delta path, so a slow fan-out can never momentarily revert a fresher live delta (R2 N5). (Aggregated live stream **delivered 2026-07-10** — see `docs/plans/2026-07-10-aggregated-live-alarm-stream-plan.md`.)
+- **Refresh** — manual refresh button plus the 15s poll timer (mirroring the Health dashboard), now retained as a **fallback + `NotReporting` authority** behind the live cache: when the cache reports `IsLive`, the page renders live-cache state; when a stream is unhealthy, **the aggregator has died (deathwatch resets `IsLive`)**, or a site has not yet seeded, the poll keeps the page fresh so a stream failure never blanks it. When live, the poll updates only the `NotReporting` list and leaves the row set to the delta path, so a slow fan-out can never momentarily revert a fresher live delta (R2 N5). (Aggregated live stream **delivered 2026-07-10** — see `docs/plans/2026-07-10-aggregated-live-alarm-stream-plan.md`.)
 - **Reuse** — the alarm badge/formatter markup is factored out of Debug View into a shared `AlarmStateBadges` component consumed by both Debug View and this page.
 
 ### Parked Message Management (Deployment Role)
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication/ISiteAlarmLiveCache.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication/ISiteAlarmLiveCache.cs
index 8fe7eebc..5d094a47 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication/ISiteAlarmLiveCache.cs
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication/ISiteAlarmLiveCache.cs
@@ -60,6 +60,6 @@ public interface ISiteAlarmLiveCache
     /// cache is authoritative.
     /// </summary>
     /// <param name="siteId">The numeric site id.</param>
-    /// <returns><c>true</c> once the site's aggregator has seeded and published at least once.</returns>
+    /// <returns><c>true</c> while a <b>living</b> aggregator has seeded and published; reverts to false if the aggregator terminates (R2 N6) — a frozen snapshot is never reported as live.</returns>
     bool IsLive(int siteId);
 }
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication/SiteAlarmLiveCacheService.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication/SiteAlarmLiveCacheService.cs
index f27d50a7..c3fbb7f3 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication/SiteAlarmLiveCacheService.cs
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication/SiteAlarmLiveCacheService.cs
@@ -239,6 +239,14 @@ public sealed class SiteAlarmLiveCacheService : ISiteAlarmLiveCache
                     TimeSpan.FromSeconds(60))); // stability window — former StabilityWindow static default
 
                 entry.Actor = system.ActorOf(props, $"site-alarm-aggregator-{entry.SiteId}-{Guid.NewGuid():N}");
+
+                var aggregator = entry.Actor;
+                // Deathwatch (arch-review R2 N6): if the aggregator terminates for any reason,
+                // liveness must reset — a dead feed must never keep IsLive == true, or the page
+                // grafts a frozen snapshot over fresh poll data for up to 15 s.
+                system.ActorOf(Props.Create(() => new AggregatorTerminationWatcher(
+                    aggregator!, () => OnAggregatorTerminated(entry.SiteId, aggregator!))));
+
                 entry.StartRetryTimer?.Dispose();
                 entry.StartRetryTimer = null;
                 _logger.LogInformation("Started live alarm aggregator for site {SiteId} ({SiteIdentifier})",
@@ -421,6 +429,57 @@ public sealed class SiteAlarmLiveCacheService : ISiteAlarmLiveCache
         }
     }
 
+    // ── Deathwatch (R2 N6) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    /// <summary>Watches one aggregator and fires a callback exactly once on Terminated.</summary>
+    private sealed class AggregatorTerminationWatcher : ReceiveActor
+    {
+        public AggregatorTerminationWatcher(IActorRef watched, Action onTerminated)
+        {
+            Context.Watch(watched);
+            Receive<Terminated>(_ =>
+            {
+                onTerminated();
+                Context.Stop(Self);
+            });
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Terminated hook (R2 N6). A DELIBERATE stop (linger fired, entry already removed
+    /// from _sites) is a no-op — the ReferenceEquals guard also ignores a stale watcher
+    /// firing after a newer aggregator replaced the dead one. A crash-death with live
+    /// viewers resets liveness (IsLive → false, snapshot cleared, so the page's poll is
+    /// authoritative again) and arms the existing bounded start-retry so the feature
+    /// self-heals, mirroring StartAggregatorAsync's transient-failure path.
+    /// </summary>
+    private void OnAggregatorTerminated(int siteId, IActorRef deadActor)
+    {
+        lock (_lock)
+        {
+            if (!_sites.TryGetValue(siteId, out var entry) || !ReferenceEquals(entry.Actor, deadActor))
+                return;
+
+            entry.Actor = null;
+            entry.HasPublished = false;
+            entry.Current = Empty;
+
+            if (entry.Subscribers.Count > 0 && !entry.Starting)
+            {
+                entry.Starting = true;
+                entry.StartRetryTimer?.Dispose();
+                entry.StartRetryTimer = new Timer(
+                    _ => { _ = StartAggregatorAsync(entry); },
+                    state: null,
+                    dueTime: _options.LiveAlarmCacheReconcileInterval,
+                    period: Timeout.InfiniteTimeSpan);
+            }
+        }
+        _logger.LogWarning(
+            "Live alarm aggregator for site {SiteId} terminated unexpectedly; liveness reset " +
+            "(page falls back to polling) and a restart is armed while viewers remain", siteId);
+    }
+
     // ── Nested types ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
     /// <summary>Per-site bookkeeping. All mutable fields are guarded by the service's <c>_lock</c>.</summary>
diff --git a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication.Tests/SiteAlarmLiveCacheServiceTests.cs b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication.Tests/SiteAlarmLiveCacheServiceTests.cs
index eec76ba1..533e203c 100644
--- a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication.Tests/SiteAlarmLiveCacheServiceTests.cs
+++ b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication.Tests/SiteAlarmLiveCacheServiceTests.cs
@@ -302,4 +302,40 @@ public class SiteAlarmLiveCacheServiceTests : TestKit
         AwaitCondition(() => service.IsLive(3), TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));
         Assert.True(factory.GetOrCreateCount >= 1); // a client was created for the single endpoint
     }
+
+    // ── R2 T10: deathwatch un-sticks IsLive on aggregator death (N6) ──
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task Aggregator_Death_Resets_IsLive_And_Clears_The_Snapshot()
+    {
+        var service = CreateService(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5), out _);
+        using var sub = service.Subscribe(SiteId, () => { });
+        AwaitAssert(() => Assert.True(service.IsLive(SiteId)), TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
+
+        // Kill the aggregator out from under the service (crash-death, NOT a linger stop).
+        var aggregator = await Sys.ActorSelection($"/user/site-alarm-aggregator-{SiteId}-*")
+            .ResolveOne(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));
+        Sys.Stop(aggregator);
+
+        AwaitAssert(() =>
+        {
+            Assert.False(service.IsLive(SiteId));          // sticky no more (R2 N6)
+            Assert.Empty(service.GetCurrentAlarms(SiteId)); // frozen snapshot never grafted
+        }, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Linger_Stop_Does_Not_Resurrect_The_Aggregator()
+    {
+        // Last viewer leaves, linger fires, entry removed: the deathwatch on the
+        // deliberately-stopped actor must be a no-op (entry gone), not a restart.
+        var service = CreateService(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(50), out var factory);
+        var sub = service.Subscribe(SiteId, () => { });
+        AwaitAssert(() => Assert.True(service.IsLive(SiteId)), TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
+        sub.Dispose();
+        AwaitAssert(() => Assert.False(service.IsLive(SiteId)), TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
+        var startsAfterStop = factory.GetOrCreateCount;
+        Thread.Sleep(300);
+        Assert.Equal(startsAfterStop, factory.GetOrCreateCount); // no self-heal restart fired
+    }
 }