Production Checklist

MicroRaft is a library, so production readiness depends on the system you build around it. Use this as a rollout checklist, not as marketing copy.

Use this page when You already have a prototype and need to pressure-test persistence, transport, and observability choices.
What this page does It turns the abstract Raft guarantees into rollout checks you can actually verify before launch.
Read next Pair this with Monitoring and Troubleshooting before you trust a real deployment.

Persistence

  • Decide how Raft log entries, snapshots, and metadata will be stored durably.
  • Verify crash recovery behavior with realistic restart tests.
  • Ensure your snapshot policy matches state size and recovery time targets.

Transport and threading

  • Define backpressure and queueing boundaries between the Raft layer and your networking stack.
  • Validate timeout behavior under partial node stalls, not only clean failures.
  • Load-test your chosen threading model with realistic request bursts.

Monitoring and diagnostics

  • Export RaftNodeReport data or use microraft-metrics with Micrometer.
  • Alert on leader changes, quorum loss, replication lag, and snapshot churn.
  • Keep enough logs to reconstruct membership and leadership transitions.

Failure scenarios

  • Test node restart, node replacement, and network partition scenarios.
  • Exercise quorum-loss behavior and leader demotion handling.
  • Rehearse membership changes instead of treating them as a theoretical feature.

Release and upgrade process

  • Document the upgrade order for your service.
  • Verify compatibility assumptions across persisted state and snapshots.
  • Keep benchmark and soak-test results for the exact build you deploy.