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title: Operations
path: operations
status: published
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# Operations

Documentation for running a ScaiDNS instance: deployment, configuration, health, and the signals to watch in production. Audience is operators, not API integrators — the rest of these docs cover the API surface.

## Pages in this section

- [Deployment](./deployment.md) — required services, environment variables, systemd units, first-time setup flow (migrations, ScaiKey registration, initial admin, nameserver configuration, PowerDNS settings).
- [Health and Monitoring](./health-and-monitoring.md) — health endpoints, Prometheus metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards worth alerting on, common failure patterns, backup and recovery.