Before going live, review the following lists of recommendations. Complete as many items as possible to ensure that your production environment is resilient. ## Operations ### Monitor your operations

For stores on a Shopify Plus plan, set up log drains for persisted logs to your chosen log storage and monitoring provider.

Establish a monitoring solution to keep track of your storefront's health, such as a check for uptime, number of errors in the log files, or site performance score.

Set up alerts on critical events and metrics to notify your support staff and development team when problems occur in production.

### Build a release strategy

Create a production rollout plan, including domain setup. Ensure that all tests pass before releasing to production.

Develop an incident response process. For example, isolate the incident's cause, triage to the appropriate teams for troubleshooting, and prepare for emergency deployment rollbacks.

For stores on the Shopify Plus plan, work with a Merchant Success Manager to ensure that they're aware of your production launch.

## Security ### Set up guardrails

Create the `package-lock.json` or `yarn.lock` files in your Git repository.

Plan for potential disruption to availability or increase in latency for upstream services, such as APIs or other third-party services such as content management systems (CMS).

Coordinate with service providers to load test your storefronts. Ensure that you allocate three to five weeks for load testing in your rollout plans so that each party has sufficient preparation time.

## Performance ### Optimize site performance

Implement caching when applicable. For more information, refer to [Hydrogen caching](/docs/storefronts/headless/hydrogen/caching) and the [Oxygen Cache API](/docs/storefronts/headless/hydrogen/deployments/oxygen-runtime#cache-api).

Optimize server bundle and static asset sizes, such as images and videos.

## Go live guide This guide prepares you to go live with a Hydrogen storefront that's hosted on Oxygen. ### Load testing If you plan to load test your build before launch, then our anti-bot System might recognize your load test system as bot traffic and throttle it. To coordinate a scheduled load test, connect with your Merchant Success Manager or Shopify Support three to five weeks in advance of your go live date. ### Shopify analytics To ensure that Shopify analytics are working properly, follow our [set up guide](/docs/storefronts/headless/hydrogen/analytics) ### Manage Shopify Scripts If you're using Shopify Scripts, then you might need to [unpublish and republish them](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/checkout-settings/script-editor/publish) and ensure that they're available to the Storefront API. ### Update Meta & Google product feeds If you're using Meta & Google apps for your product feeds for advertising, then you'll need to update those catalogs to use your Hydrogen storefront's domain. You can do this either using a third-party tool instead of the standard Facebook and Google sales channels, or by setting up feed rules. For more information, refer to [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/business/help/1206652516201625?id=725943027795860), and [Google](https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7450276?hl=en) documentation. ### Redirect previous order status pages If your online store has active orders before you launch your Hydrogen storefront, then [redirect customers](https://shopify.dev/docs/storefronts/headless/hydrogen/migrate/redirect-traffic#step-2-redirect-old-order-status-url-requests-to-the-online-store) to avoid 404 responses. ## Next Steps - Take live traffic with [Redirect traffic to the Hydrogen channel](/docs/storefronts/headless/hydrogen/migrate/redirect-traffic) to publish the new Hydrogen storefront.