Operations & Maintenance

Production procedures, deployment guides, and incident response

🚀 Deployment Process

1. Pre-Deployment Checklist

  • ✓All environment variables configured in Vercel dashboard
  • ✓TypeScript compilation successful (pnpm build)
  • ✓All tests passing locally
  • ✓Upstash Vector database populated with current data
  • ✓Groq API key valid and has sufficient credits

2. Deployment Steps

# Commit and push changes
git add .
git commit -m "Description of changes"
git push origin main
# Vercel automatically deploys on push
# Monitor deployment at vercel.com/dashboard

3. Post-Deployment Verification

  • →Check deployment status in Vercel dashboard
  • →Test /api/health endpoint for system health
  • →Verify AI assistant functionality on homepage
  • →Run load test from /scalability page
  • →Monitor /monitoring dashboard for anomalies

📊 Monitoring & Alerts

Key Metrics to Monitor

System Health
  • • API response times < 2000ms
  • • Error rate < 5%
  • • Success rate > 95%
External Services
  • • Upstash Vector connectivity
  • • Groq API availability
  • • Vector search latency < 1000ms

Monitoring Endpoints

GET /api/health - System health check
GET /api/metrics - Performance metrics
GET /monitoring - Real-time dashboard

💾 Backup & Recovery Strategy

Data Backup

  • ✓Profile Data: digitaltwin.json stored in Git repository
  • ✓Vector Database: Upstash provides automatic backups
  • ✓Code: GitHub repository serves as version control
  • ✓Configuration: Environment variables documented in README

Recovery Procedures

In case of service degradation:
  1. 1. Check /api/health endpoint for failing services
  2. 2. Verify environment variables in Vercel dashboard
  3. 3. Review Vercel deployment logs for errors
  4. 4. Test Upstash Vector connection independently
  5. 5. Validate Groq API key and rate limits
  6. 6. Roll back to previous deployment if needed

🚨 Incident Response

Common Issues & Solutions

❌ High Error Rate (> 5%)
Possible Causes: Groq API rate limits, Upstash connection issues
Resolution: Check API quotas, verify network connectivity, review error logs
⏱️ Slow Response Times (> 3s)
Possible Causes: Vector search latency, LLM generation time
Resolution: Reduce topK results, optimize prompts, check Upstash performance
🔌 Service Unavailable
Possible Causes: Environment variable misconfiguration, external API outage
Resolution: Verify all env vars, check service status pages, test APIs independently

⏪ Rollback Procedures

Quick Rollback via Vercel

  1. 1. Go to Vercel dashboard → Deployments
  2. 2. Find the last stable deployment
  3. 3. Click "Promote to Production"
  4. 4. Verify rollback via /api/health endpoint
  5. 5. Monitor /monitoring dashboard for stability
Git Rollback
git log --oneline # Find commit to revert to
git revert [commit-hash]
git push origin main