- Disabled duplicate email service (emailService.js) that was creating redundant connections
- Increased connection pool size from 10 to 25 for production environment
- Extended session timeout cache from 5 to 30 minutes to reduce DB queries
- Added connection retry logic with exponential backoff for transient failures
- Fixed password validation to use retry wrapper and correct setting key
- Updated public settings and gallery middleware to handle connection failures gracefully
These changes address the "Connection terminated unexpectedly" errors in production by:
1. Reducing unnecessary database connections
2. Increasing available connection pool capacity
3. Implementing automatic retry for transient connection failures
4. Caching frequently accessed data for longer periods
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Original: feat: enhance security logging and ensure rate limit blocks are properly tracked
- Add comprehensive logging for rate limit blocks with full request details
- IP address (with proper proxy detection), user agent, headers, timestamps
- Rate limit info (current count, limit, remaining, reset time)
- Separate tracking for auth vs general endpoints
- Enhance authentication failure logging
- JWT validation failures with detailed error info
- Admin auth attempts without token
- Failed token validation with user context
- All events include IP, path, method, user agent
- Improve Winston logger configuration for production
- Add automatic log rotation (10MB errors, 50MB combined)
- Create separate security.log for auth/rate limit events
- Ensure logs directory exists automatically
- Add structured JSON format for log aggregation
- Support container logging with LOG_TO_CONSOLE env var
- Create comprehensive documentation
- Security logging guide with examples
- Monitoring recommendations
- Configuration reference
- Add test script to verify logging functionality
All rate limit settings remain configurable via admin panel:
- Window duration, max requests, auth limits
- Skip authenticated requests option
- Public endpoints only option
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