Manage Deployments

Once your models are deployed to production, you need tools and strategies to manage them effectively. This guide covers listing deployments, monitoring application health, managing multiple versions, and safely removing models.

Listing Deployments

View all your deployed models to understand your current production environment:

fal apps list

This shows all your deployed models with their current status, versions, and basic configuration. Use this to get an overview of your model portfolio and identify which models need attention.

Managing Versions

Viewing Model Revisions

Each deployment creates a new revision. List all revisions for a specific model:

fal apps list-rev myapp

Switching Between Revisions

If you need to roll back to a previous model version or switch to a different revision:

fal apps set-rev myapp uuid_of_revision

This is useful for quick rollbacks when a new model version has issues in production.

Scaling Deployments

After deployment, you can adjust scaling parameters without redeploying:

fal apps scale myapp --min-concurrency 2 --max-concurrency 20

For comprehensive scaling configuration and strategies, see Scale Your Application.

Monitoring Health

Basic Health Checks

Monitor your model’s health and performance using the fal dashboard, or check active runners:

fal apps runners myapp

For detailed performance monitoring, metrics collection, and alerting strategies, see Monitor Performance.

Removing Deployments

Safe Deletion Process

Before deleting a model deployment:

Verify dependencies: Ensure no other services or applications depend on this model
Check traffic: Review recent usage to understand impact
Backup if needed: Document model configuration or export important data

Delete a Deployment

fal apps delete myapp

Warning: This permanently removes the model deployment. The model cannot be recovered after deletion.

Delete Specific Revisions

To clean up old revisions while keeping the current deployment:

fal apps delete-rev myapp --revision-id abc123