Operations and monitoring
Internal status surface
This project separates public uptime checks from internal operational context. The public endpoint stays deliberately low-information, while protected tooling can remain useful in local and preview workflows.
Overview
Project summary
An internal-only status route and a low-information health endpoint designed to support uptime checks without exposing more than necessary. The split keeps operational visibility available while production navigation stays clean.
- Status
- Preview and local
- Period
- 2026
- Effort
- Ongoing hardening
- Public surface
- /api/health
- Internal route
- Protected test surface
- Priority
- Safety before convenience
Technical notes
Context, implementation, and next work
The sections below keep the page readable as documentation: a short explanation followed by concrete notes.
Challenge
Operational visibility must not become public diagnostics
A portfolio site still needs health checks and preview tooling, but those surfaces should not expose deployment state, secrets, or admin context to production visitors.
- Keep uptime checks public and machine-readable
- Keep internal diagnostics out of production navigation
- Preserve environment-specific behavior as a security control
Approach
Split public health from protected operational UI
The public endpoint is intentionally small. Richer diagnostics are treated as internal UI, with routing and admin behavior handled separately from the health payload.
- Low-information JSON for `/api/health`
- Preview and local visibility for internal tooling
- Production gating through route and navigation boundaries
Next
Keep the boundary explicit as operations mature
Future work can add richer internal diagnostics, but the public endpoint should stay narrow and the project page should describe the boundary without exposing internals.
- Document new operational checks before exposing them
- Keep admin-only information out of public metadata
- Treat internal route changes as security-sensitive work
Content model
CMS handoff notes
The page is still backed by local TypeScript records, but the data shape is intentionally close to a future CMS collection.
- Public artifact link is separate from protected internal routes
- Security-sensitive project notes stay editorial, not diagnostic
- Future CMS records can mark projects as public, internal, or mixed