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Use this page as your production standard before you rely on API traffic for customer-facing flows.

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Security baseline

  • Keep API credentials on server-side systems only.
  • Restrict credential visibility to approved team members.
  • Use separate credentials per environment.
  • Keep a documented credential-rotation process.
  • Rotate immediately after any suspected leak.
If you suspect a key leak, rotate credentials first. Investigation comes after containment.

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Reliability baseline

  • Set request timeouts for every API call.
  • Retry only temporary failures.
  • Use exponential backoff with jitter.
  • Cap retry attempts to avoid retry storms.
  • Show a graceful fallback in your UI when requests fail.

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Monitoring baseline

For each request, log:
  • endpoint path and method
  • response status
  • response time
  • retry count
  • service and environment name
Do not log:
  • API secrets
  • full auth headers
  • sensitive personal user data

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Safe rollout process

1

Validate in staging first

Test request/response behavior with your staging credentials and staging environment.
2

Release behind a controlled rollout

Start with a small share of traffic before full rollout.
3

Watch live metrics

Monitor error rate, response time, and retry volume in real time.
4

Keep rollback ready

Be able to disable or roll back quickly if error rates rise.

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Remapdb-specific checks

  • After any plan change, confirm API access is still active.
  • After any website/domain change, re-test widget-related API requests.
  • After credential rotation, confirm every worker and scheduled job loaded new credentials.

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Go-live checklist

  • Credentials are stored securely on the backend.
  • Staging validation is complete.
  • Monitoring and alerts are active.
  • Usage budget alerts are configured.
  • Rollback procedure is tested.