My checklist for when a new service is ready for production.
I know, nothing new, no discovery here. But it happens that even across one team different engineers will put different weight to different items or have different lists. So here’s mine.

I won’t mention testing here, which belongs more to development phase.

• monitoring (work metrics, resource metrics, events, alerts, dashboards, service health checks, end to end checks)
• run books covering at least basic failures
• logs shipped to central log, no writing to local disk
• if for some reason log can’t be shipped to central log – log rotation, yes for Docker too
• scaling runbooks or even better – scaling automation
• performance testing scenario
• backup scenario
• chaos monkey scenarios

What’s yours? What would you add?