Production Readiness Checklist
Complete production readiness checklist for deploying AI agents including security, performance, reliability, and compliance
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You can't fix what you can't see. Production monitoring provides visibility into system health. Set up metrics dashboards, log aggregation, distributed tracing, and critical alerts. Document runbooks for common incidents. Test backup restoration quarterly. Operations excellence prevents midnight emergencies.
Interactive: Operations Checklist Explorer
Explore operations requirements across four categories:
Monitoring Best Practices
Monitor latency, traffic, errors, and saturation. These four metrics reveal system health.
Set based on SLOs. Error rate >0.5% = critical. Latency >2x baseline = warning.
Test restoration quarterly. Untested backups are useless. Document recovery time.
Document every incident response. Update runbooks after each incident.
Production without monitoring is flying blind. Invest in observability infrastructure before launch. Good monitoring catches issues in seconds, not hours. Bad monitoring means angry users calling support. Spend 20% of development time on monitoring—it pays dividends in uptime and user trust.