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CoveCove

Monitoring and logs

Logs

Section titled “Logs”

The server writes structured log lines to standard output. Secrets, tokens, keys, passwords and message bodies are never logged; entries reference IDs instead.

  • Docker: docker compose logs -f backend
  • systemd: journalctl -u cove -f

Set NO_COLOR=1 to disable ANSI colors in captured logs. Development mode (GO_ENV=development) adds extra detail.

Health checks

Section titled “Health checks”

GET /api/version is public and needs no authentication, which makes it a suitable liveness probe:

Terminal window
curl -fsS https://chat.example.com/api/version

Things worth watching

Section titled “Things worth watching”
  • Disk usage of data/ (uploads grow over time)
  • Free UDP ports and bandwidth during busy calls
  • Repeated 429 responses, which mean rate_limit is being hit
  • Server restarts after upgrades or config edits