Capacity Sentinel
What This Service Is For
The sentinel publishes shared database protection factors and permits bounded staff incident overrides. Consuming services determine how much work those factors admit.
Boundary
This contract owns the protection model and staff pin. It exposes public health and staff-only system controls; customer administration grants do not provide access.
Operations in Words
Authorized staff inspect, replace and remove a pin. Replacement validates state, reason and expiry, and mutations retain audit evidence. Public health reports readiness. None of these routes publishes a Submissions binding.
Events and Jobs
One reserved-concurrency sentinel evaluates each minute. It writes cache and parameter state rather than publishing a business event. Emergency API stage reductions use a separate switch that starts disabled.
Consistency Guarantees
Pin writes are transactional, while stage changes and state publications have separate outcomes. An active pin precedes signal fallback; without one, repeated signal failure returns normal. Publication errors can leave stale channels rather than changing the decision to normal.