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Operations Overview

Last Updated: 2025-11-27

This document provides a central hub for all operations-related documentation for VoiceAssist.


CategoryDocumentPurpose
SLOsSLO DefinitionsReliability targets and error budgets
MetricsBusiness MetricsKey performance indicators
PerformanceConnection Pool OptimizationDatabase connection tuning

Runbooks

All runbooks follow a standardized format with severity levels, step-by-step procedures, and verification steps.

RunbookPurposePrimary Audience
DeploymentDeploy VoiceAssist to productionDevOps, Backend
MonitoringSet up and manage observability stackDevOps
TroubleshootingDiagnose and fix common issuesDevOps, Backend
Incident ResponseHandle production incidentsOn-call, DevOps
Backup & RestoreData backup and recovery proceduresDevOps
ScalingScale infrastructure for loadDevOps, Backend

Compliance

DocumentPurpose
Analytics Data PolicyData handling for analytics

For HIPAA compliance, see Security & Compliance.


Incident Severity Levels

SeverityDescriptionResponse Time
P1 - CriticalComplete service outage, data loss risk15 minutes
P2 - HighMajor feature broken, significant degradation1 hour
P3 - MediumMinor feature broken, degraded performance4 hours
P4 - LowCosmetic issues, minimal impact24 hours

Key SLOs

MetricTargetMeasurement Window
API Availability99.9%30 days
Success Rate99.5%30 days
P95 Latency< 200ms30 days
Error Rate< 0.5%30 days

On-Call Essentials

Quick Diagnostic Commands

# Check service health curl http://localhost:8000/health curl http://localhost:8000/ready # Check all containers docker compose ps # View recent logs docker compose logs --tail=100 voiceassist-server # Check database docker compose exec postgres psql -U voiceassist -c "SELECT 1" # Check Redis docker compose exec redis redis-cli ping

Escalation Path

  1. L1 Support: Check health endpoints, restart services
  2. L2 DevOps: Investigate logs, check metrics, apply standard fixes
  3. L3 Engineering: Deep debugging, code-level investigation
  4. Management: Major incidents requiring business decisions


Version History

DateVersionChanges
2025-11-271.0.0Initial operations overview
Beginning of guide
End of guide