Operations Guide

This section contains operational runbooks and procedures for running RustChat in production.

Documentation Sections

Runbooks

• Operations Runbook - Common operational tasks and procedures
• Docs Site Deployment - CI/CD deployment for docs.rustchat.io

Topics Covered

Incident Response

• Service outage response
• Database connectivity issues
• Redis failures
• File storage problems

Maintenance

• Database backups
• Log rotation
• Certificate renewal
• Version upgrades

Monitoring

• Health check endpoints
• Key metrics to watch
• Alert thresholds
• Log analysis

Debugging

• Common issues and solutions
• Log locations
• Debug mode
• Tracing and observability

Quick Reference

Health Checks

# Backend health
curl http://localhost:3000/health

# Full stack
curl http://localhost:8080/api/v4/system/ping

Log Locations

# Docker Compose
docker compose logs -f backend
docker compose logs -f frontend

# Structured JSON logs (backend)
# Configure RUST_LOG for verbosity

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For deployment: See Admin Guide.