Imported from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace (skills/.curated/brightdata-prod-checklist/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill brightdata-prod-checklist. Copyright stays with the author (MIT).

Bright Data Production Checklist

Overview

Complete checklist for deploying Bright Data scraping integrations to production with zone verification, monitoring, and rollback procedures.

Prerequisites

• Staging environment tested
• Production zone credentials in secrets vault
• Monitoring and alerting configured

Instructions

Step 1: Zone and Credential Verification

• Production zone active in Bright Data CP
• Zone password stored in secrets vault (not .env)
• API token scoped to production zone only
• SSL certificate (brd-ca.crt) deployed
• Separate zone from development/staging

# Verify production zone is active
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer ${BRIGHTDATA_API_TOKEN}" \
  https://api.brightdata.com/zone/get_active_zones \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json; zones=json.load(sys.stdin); print([z['name'] for z in zones])"

# Test production proxy connectivity
curl -x "http://brd-customer-${BRIGHTDATA_CUSTOMER_ID}-zone-${BRIGHTDATA_ZONE}:${BRIGHTDATA_ZONE_PASSWORD}@brd.superproxy.io:33335" \
  -s -w "HTTP %{http_code} in %{time_total}s\n" \
  https://lumtest.com/myip.json

Step 2: Code Quality

• No hardcoded credentials (grep for passwords, tokens)
• Retry logic with exponential backoff (see brightdata-rate-limits)
• Request queuing with concurrency limits (p-queue)
• Response validation (check for CAPTCHA pages, empty responses)
• Timeout set to 60-120s for Web Unlocker
• Error logging includes X-Luminati-Error headers

Step 3: Infrastructure

• Health check endpoint tests proxy connectivity
• Monitoring tracks proxy response times, error rates
• Budget alerts configured in Bright Data CP
• Circuit breaker for proxy failures

// Health check endpoint
export async function healthCheck() {
  const start = Date.now();
  try {
    const client = getBrightDataClient();
    const res = await client.get('https://lumtest.com/myip.json');
    return {
      status: 'healthy',
      proxy_ip: res.data.ip,
      latency_ms: Date.now() - start,
    };
  } catch (error: any) {
    return {
      status: 'degraded',
      error: error.response?.headers?.['x-luminati-error'] || error.message,
      latency_ms: Date.now() - start,
    };
  }
}

Step 4: Monitoring and Alerts

Step 5: Gradual Rollout

# Pre-flight
curl -s api/v2/status.json | python3 -c "import sys,json; s=json.load(sys.stdin); print(f'Status: {s[\"status\"][\"description\"]}')"

# Deploy with canary
kubectl apply -f k8s/production.yaml
kubectl rollout status deployment/scraper --timeout=300s

# Verify scraping works post-deploy
curl -s http://localhost:8080/health | python3 -m json.tool

Rollback Procedure

# Immediate rollback
kubectl rollout undo deployment/scraper
kubectl rollout status deployment/scraper

# If zone compromised, pause in Bright Data CP immediately

Output

• Verified production zone and credentials
• Health check endpoint monitoring proxy connectivity
• Alert rules for proxy errors and budget spikes
• Documented rollback procedure

Error Handling

Block promotion when target authorization, data classification, secret injection, rate/cost caps, retention, monitoring, or rollback evidence is missing. On a policy or data-quality incident, pause the affected zone/job, preserve a redacted receipt, and escalate; do not broaden proxy routing or retries to work around the failure.

Examples

Before enablement, validate a controlled target in the production-equivalent environment with a strict rate ceiling and no retained payload. Capture the policy approval, configuration version, status, and rollback version. Gradually increase only after the owner accepts the redacted receipt and reconciliation result.

Resources

• Bright Data Status
• Zone Management
• Usage Dashboard

Next Steps

For version upgrades, see brightdata-upgrade-migration.