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Performance, Reliability, and Fault Tolerance

This section covers the performance characteristics, reliability guarantees, and fault tolerance mechanisms of the BNB Billing System.

Monitoring & Observability​

Prometheus: Metrics collection

  • Request rate, latency, error rate
  • Database connection pool usage
  • Payment success/failure rates
  • Idempotency cache hit rate

Grafana: Visualization dashboards

  • Real-time system health
  • Payment analytics
  • SLA compliance tracking

Alerting:

  • PagerDuty integration for critical alerts
  • Slack notifications for warnings
  • Email summaries for daily reports

For detailed information, see:

  • Security - Security architecture and best practices
  • Reliability - Reliability guarantees and disaster recovery
  • Auditing - Audit logging and compliance