A base station may transmit, to a user equipment (UE), an indication of parameters (e.g., thresholds) for radio link monitoring (RLM). The UE may monitor active beam pairs in accordance with the indication. In some cases, the UE may configure or may be configured (e.g., by a base station) to transmit reference signals for triggering an RLM operation based on the monitored beam pairs. After triggering, the base station may perform an RLM operation with the UE. Additionally or alternatively, a base station may configure a UE with a beam monitoring configuration that enables uplink beam monitoring. The configuration may indicate one or more active beam pairs for uplink transmissions from the UE, and the base station may perform an RLM operation on the indicated beam pairs. Based on RLM operations (e.g., joint uplink and downlink beam monitoring), beam pairs may be reestablished or newly established.