# 7th November 2025 — Lightweight Health Checks for Faster Deployments [#77](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/issues/77)
## [build 355](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/actions/runs/19154665164) — [Refs: #77](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/issues/77) — [commits e8d39f5, db59d5e, eeab577](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/commit/eeab577)

Resolved Fly.io deployment timeouts by separating lightweight health checks from detailed system status, and increased grace period for MongoDB initialization.

**Where to Find It**

- **API**: `/api/health` — fast endpoint for deployment health checks
- **API**: `/api/system-status` — detailed status with database queries
- **Deployment**: Fly.io health check configuration

**Benefits**

- **Faster Deployments**: Health checks now return immediately instead of taking 15-17 seconds
- **Reliable Health Checks**: No timeout errors during MongoDB initialization or migration execution
- **Proper Startup Time**: 60-second grace period allows MongoDB connection and migration checks to complete
- **Detailed Status Available**: Separate endpoint maintains comprehensive system status with DB queries

**Technical Details**

Health Endpoint Changes:
- Remove database query from /api/health endpoint
- Health checks were exceeding Fly.io's 5-second timeout during startup
- MongoDB queries during migration execution caused 15-17 second delays
- Detailed system status with DB queries remains at /api/system-status

Fly.io Configuration:
- Increase grace_period from 5s to 60s (allows MongoDB connection + migration checks)
- Increase timeout from 2s to 5s (provides buffer for database queries)
- Server initialization takes ~50 seconds total

Additional Fixes:
- Swallow memberAudit duplicate insert errors to prevent crash (commit 7fb72f9)
- Catch save() rejection in auditMemberLogin when legacy unique index exists
- Prevent unique index recreation on member-auth-audit model
- Stop embedding Member schema to avoid propagating unique index