Production Health Check Endpoints: Readiness and Logs Beat External Polling Alone
An Express production health check endpoint cannot tell me that a scheduled media import produced zero articles, even when its readiness response is green. For this job, I would choose three-layer evidence: liveness for the Node.js process, readiness for dependencies, and searchable completion logs that an external polling task can verify. A standalone uptime check is still useful, but it answers…
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