diff --git a/docs/GatewayDashboardDesign.md b/docs/GatewayDashboardDesign.md
index 5bd7241..0f6d16e 100644
--- a/docs/GatewayDashboardDesign.md
+++ b/docs/GatewayDashboardDesign.md
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ hubs stay for the audience that genuinely needs a wire.
 |---|---|---|
 | every page deriving from `DashboardPageBase` | `IDashboardSnapshotFeed.WatchAsync` | `DashboardSnapshotFeed` (singleton) multicasting one `IDashboardSnapshotService.WatchSnapshotsAsync` enumeration |
 | `SessionDetailsPage` | `IDashboardSessionEventSubscriber.Subscribe(sessionId)` | `DashboardEventBroadcaster` — the same singleton the session mirror publishes to, registered behind both interfaces |
-| `AlarmsPage` | `IGatewayAlarmService.StreamAsync` | the central alarm monitor, **provider status only**; the alarm rows still come from the 3 s `QueryAlarmsAsync` poll |
+| `AlarmsPage` | `IGatewayAlarmService.StreamAsync` | the central alarm monitor, **gateway-status frames only** — `provider_status` for the badge and `snapshot_status` for the truncated-snapshot banner; the alarm rows still come from the 3 s `QueryAlarmsAsync` poll |
 
 The snapshot feed multicasts rather than handing each page its own enumeration:
 `WatchSnapshotsAsync` is not multicast on its own — each enumeration owns a timer
@@ -288,9 +288,9 @@ Both seams consume the same producing services, so they share these cadences:
   to its internal dashboard-mirror subscriber (independent of any gRPC `StreamEvents`);
 - the alarms page's status feed resubscribes one second after its
   `IGatewayAlarmService.StreamAsync` enumeration ends — the monitor completes a
-  subscriber's stream when it falls behind and again when it restarts, both
-  recoverable by resubscribing — and the badge and banner hold their last values in
-  between. That feed carries both gateway-status frames: `provider_status` drives the
+  subscriber's stream only when that subscriber has fallen behind, which resubscribing
+  recovers (a monitor restart keeps the channel and pushes cleared status frames through
+  it) — and the badge and banner hold their last values in between. That feed carries both gateway-status frames: `provider_status` drives the
   badge, and `snapshot_status` drives the truncated-snapshot banner, so the caveat
   appears on the monitor's verdict change rather than up to three seconds later. Every
   subscriber is primed with a `snapshot_status` frame at open, so a page attaching
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Server/Dashboard/Components/Pages/AlarmsPage.razor b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Server/Dashboard/Components/Pages/AlarmsPage.razor
index 8c3ad85..d12ecbd 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Server/Dashboard/Components/Pages/AlarmsPage.razor
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Server/Dashboard/Components/Pages/AlarmsPage.razor
@@ -258,10 +258,13 @@
             }
             catch
             {
-                // The monitor completes a subscriber's stream when it falls behind, and
-                // again when the monitor restarts. Both are recoverable by resubscribing;
-                // the badge and banner hold their last values in the meantime, and the
-                // resubscribe is primed with the current ones.
+                // The monitor drops a subscriber whose queue it cannot write to, completing
+                // that stream with an error; short of cancellation or disposal that is the
+                // only way this enumeration ends. A monitor restart is NOT one of them — it
+                // keeps the channel and pushes the cleared status frames through it — so this
+                // catch is the fell-behind case, recoverable by resubscribing. The badge and
+                // banner hold their last values meanwhile, and the resubscribe is primed with
+                // the current ones.
             }
 
             try
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Tests/Dashboard/AlarmsPageTruncationBannerTests.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Tests/Dashboard/AlarmsPageTruncationBannerTests.cs
index 8a7e7fc..d14339b 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Tests/Dashboard/AlarmsPageTruncationBannerTests.cs
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Tests/Dashboard/AlarmsPageTruncationBannerTests.cs
@@ -134,6 +134,44 @@ public sealed class AlarmsPageTruncationBannerTests
             "banner to clear after a complete snapshot_status frame");
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Attach while the verdict is already truncated. The page carries no
+    ///     priming logic of its own — it relies on <c>StreamAsync</c> opening every
+    ///     subscription with a <c>snapshot_status</c> baseline — so the caveat has
+    ///     to come up off the open sequence alone, with no edge pushed afterwards.
+    ///     A page that only handled the edge would show an un-caveated alarm list
+    ///     to every operator who opened it after the truncation began.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <returns>A task that represents the asynchronous operation.</returns>
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task AlarmsPage_AttachingToAnAlreadyTruncatedFeed_RaisesTheBannerFromThePriming()
+    {
+        // The monitor's open sequence: provider status, then the unconditional
+        // completeness baseline. Nothing is pushed after this.
+        ScriptedAlarmFeed feed = new()
+        {
+            Priming =
+            [
+                new AlarmFeedMessage { ProviderStatus = new AlarmProviderStatus() },
+                SnapshotStatusFrame(truncated: true),
+            ],
+        };
+
+        await using ServiceProvider provider = BuildPushServices(feed);
+        await using HtmlRenderer renderer = new(
+            provider,
+            provider.GetRequiredService<ILoggerFactory>());
+
+        HtmlRootComponent page = await renderer.Dispatcher.InvokeAsync(
+            () => renderer.RenderComponentAsync<AlarmsPage>());
+
+        await WaitForHtmlAsync(
+            renderer,
+            page,
+            html => html.Contains(BannerMarker, StringComparison.Ordinal),
+            "banner to appear from the feed's open-time snapshot_status baseline");
+    }
+
     private static AlarmFeedMessage SnapshotStatusFrame(bool truncated)
     {
         return new AlarmFeedMessage
@@ -280,6 +318,14 @@ public sealed class AlarmsPageTruncationBannerTests
         /// <inheritdoc />
         public bool SnapshotTruncated { get; set; }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        ///     Frames replayed at the head of every subscription, standing in for the
+        ///     monitor's open sequence (provider status, then the unconditional
+        ///     completeness baseline). Empty means the subscriber sees only what the
+        ///     test pushes.
+        /// </summary>
+        public IReadOnlyList<AlarmFeedMessage> Priming { get; init; } = [];
+
         /// <summary>Pushes one frame onto the feed the page is subscribed to.</summary>
         /// <param name="message">The feed frame to deliver.</param>
         /// <returns>A task that represents the asynchronous operation.</returns>
@@ -290,6 +336,12 @@ public sealed class AlarmsPageTruncationBannerTests
             string? alarmFilterPrefix,
             [EnumeratorCancellation] CancellationToken cancellationToken)
         {
+            foreach (AlarmFeedMessage primed in Priming)
+            {
+                cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();
+                yield return primed;
+            }
+
             await foreach (AlarmFeedMessage message in _frames.Reader
                 .ReadAllAsync(cancellationToken)
                 .ConfigureAwait(false))