apify-prod-checklist

name	apify-prod-checklist
description	Production readiness checklist for Apify Actor deployments. Use when deploying an Actor to production, preparing for launch, or validating Actor configuration, scheduling, monitoring, and rollback before going live. Trigger with "apify production", "deploy actor to prod", "apify go-live", "apify launch checklist", "actor production ready".
allowed-tools	Read, Bash(apify:*), Bash(curl:*), Bash(npm:*)
version	1.5.0
license	MIT
author	Jeremy Longshore <[e-mail]>
tags	["saas","scraping","automation","apify"]
compatibility	Designed for Claude Code

Apify Production Checklist

Overview

Complete checklist for deploying Actors to the Apify platform and integrating them into production applications. Covers Actor configuration, scheduling, monitoring, alerting, and rollback. Work top to bottom: clear the pre-deployment gates, then run the six deploy steps, then wire the alert conditions.

Prerequisites

• Actor tested locally with apify run
• apify login configured with production token
• Familiarity with apify-core-workflow-a and apify-deploy-integration

Pre-Deployment Checklist

Actor Configuration

• .actor/actor.json has correct name, title, description
• INPUT_SCHEMA.json validates all required inputs
• Dockerfile uses pinned base image version (apify/actor-node:20, not latest)
• package-lock.json committed (deterministic installs)
• Memory set appropriately (start at 1024MB, tune after profiling)
• Timeout set with buffer (2x expected runtime)

Code Quality

• Actor.main() wraps entry point (handles init/exit/errors)
• failedRequestHandler logs failures without crashing Actor
• Input validation at Actor start (if (!input?.startUrls) throw ...)
• No hardcoded URLs, credentials, or magic numbers
• Proxy configured for target sites that block datacenter IPs
• maxRequestsPerCrawl set to prevent runaway costs

Data Output