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Maintenance and Support

Maintain System Reliability with This ChatGPT Prompt for Monitoring and Scalability in Production

What This Prompt Does

Recommends modern monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic) for tracking application performance, system health, and error reporting in real time.
Analyzes legacy application bottlenecks and proposes scalability strategies, including horizontal scaling, load balancing, containerization, and refactoring.
Helps engineering and DevOps teams establish proactive support practices, including alerting systems, uptime dashboards, and usage pattern analysis.
Guides tech leads in evolving legacy systems toward cloud-native, distributed, and resilient architectures.

Tips

Clarify the deployment environment (e.g., AWS, on-premise, hybrid cloud) to get relevant monitoring or scaling recommendations.
Specify your application's language, framework, or infrastructure stack so ChatGPT can suggest compatible tooling or integration methods.
Include your service-level objectives (SLOs) such as latency targets, uptime guarantees, or error thresholds to guide the monitoring setup.
When discussing scalability, provide details about database usage, caching strategies, CPU/memory patterns, and system architecture to get optimized suggestions.
Ask for automated recovery solutions like self-healing scripts or autoscaling rules to strengthen fault tolerance.

Prompt

"Suggest tools for real-time monitoring of an enterprise-level application’s performance." "How can we improve the scalability of a legacy application running on a single server?"

How To Use The Prompt

Use this prompt during the post-deployment phase to strengthen your monitoring, reliability, and scalability posture. Fill in:

[APPLICATION TYPE]: e.g., enterprise HR portal, e-commerce backend, real-time messaging app
[CURRENT SETUP]: monolith, microservices, serverless, containerized
[INFRASTRUCTURE]: on-prem, AWS EC2, GCP App Engine, Azure Functions
[TOOLS IN USE]: if any, such as ELK Stack, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch
[PERFORMANCE PAIN POINTS]: e.g., memory leaks, CPU spikes, slow response times
[SCALABILITY LIMITATIONS]: single-threaded processing, tight coupling, lack of load balancing

Example:
"Application type: Legacy ERP system used by a national retailer; Current setup: monolithic Node.js app on a single EC2 instance; Infrastructure: AWS; Pain points: CPU spikes during inventory syncing and memory bloat under concurrent users; Goal: Recommend monitoring tools and a plan to scale the app to serve 5x the current load."

Example Input

#INFORMATION ABOUT MY APPLICATION:
Application type: Customer support dashboard used by 500+ agents across time zones
Current setup: Hosted on a single Ubuntu VM with Node.js and MongoDB
Monitoring need: Track request latency, system errors, CPU/memory usage in real time
Scalability issue: Database access slows during peak hours, application crashes under high concurrency
Infrastructure: Self-hosted, considering migration to AWS
Prompt strategy goal: Recommend tools for full-stack observability and outline steps to move from a single-server setup to a cloud-scalable architecture with autoscaling and load balancing

Additional Information

This maintenance-stage mega-prompt is essential for site reliability engineers (SREs), DevOps teams, and technical operations managers. It helps you:

Build a reliable, observable, and fault-tolerant application
Catch and fix production issues faster with actionable telemetry
Identify technical debt and architectural risks that limit growth
Establish a sustainable, long-term support strategy with automation

Using this prompt helps bridge the gap between short-term support tasks and long-term engineering excellence. It ensures your product performs reliably—even at scale—and adapts to the growing demands of your users.

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