Add Application Performance Monitoring (APM) with Prometheus metrics

- Backend: Implement Prometheus metrics collection - Add prometheus-client dependency - Create metrics utility module with HTTP request tracking counters, histograms, gauges - Implement MetricsMiddleware to track request latency, count, and active requests - Add /metrics endpoint to expose metrics in Prometheus text format - Normalize paths to prevent cardinality explosion (e.g., /api/{id} for UUIDs) - Exclude /metrics and /health from detailed tracking - Frontend: Add web vitals and API metrics collection - Install web-vitals library (v4.0.0) for Core Web Vitals tracking - Create metrics utility module for FCP, LCP, CLS, INP, TTFB collection - Implement useTrackedFetch hook for automatic API call metrics (method, endpoint, status, duration) - Initialize web vitals tracking in App component on mount - Provide exportMetrics() for sending metrics to backend - Testing: - Add comprehensive backend metrics tests (9 tests, 100% coverage) - Add comprehensive frontend metrics tests (10 tests) - All tests passing - Documentation: - Expand Docs/Observability.md with complete APM section - Include metrics reference, integration examples (Prometheus, Datadog, NewRelic) - Add troubleshooting guide and best practices for cardinality management - Update Tasks.md to mark APM task as complete Metrics exposed: - bangui_http_requests_total: HTTP request count by method, endpoint, status - bangui_http_request_duration_seconds: Request latency histogram - bangui_http_active_requests: Active request gauge - Web Vitals: CLS, FCP, INP, LCP, TTFB with ratings - API metrics: endpoint, method, status, duration, timestamp Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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+## Application Performance Monitoring (Metrics)
+
+BanGUI collects comprehensive metrics for request performance, application health, and resource utilization through **Prometheus**. Metrics are exposed in standard Prometheus text format and can be scraped by monitoring systems.
+
+### Backend Metrics
+
+#### HTTP Request Metrics
+
+The backend automatically tracks HTTP request performance:
+
+- **`bangui_http_requests_total`** (Counter) — Total HTTP requests by method, endpoint, and status code
+  ```
+  bangui_http_requests_total{method="GET",endpoint="/api/jails",status_code="200"} 125
+  ```
+
+- **`bangui_http_request_duration_seconds`** (Histogram) — Request latency distribution by method and endpoint
+  ```
+  bangui_http_request_duration_seconds_bucket{method="GET",endpoint="/api/jails",le="0.1"} 120
+  bangui_http_request_duration_seconds_sum{method="GET",endpoint="/api/jails"} 45.23
+  ```
+
+- **`bangui_http_active_requests`** (Gauge) — Current number of in-flight requests by method and endpoint
+  ```
+  bangui_http_active_requests{method="GET",endpoint="/api/jails"} 5
+  ```
+
+#### Application Metrics
+
+Domain-specific metrics track application state:
+
+- **`bangui_bans_total`** (Gauge) — Total number of currently banned IPs across all jails
+- **`bangui_jails_total`** (Gauge) — Total number of fail2ban jails
+- **`bangui_fail2ban_connection_errors_total`** (Counter) — Total fail2ban connection errors
+
+#### Accessing Metrics
+
+Prometheus metrics are exposed at the `/metrics` endpoint:
+
+```bash
+curl http://localhost:8000/metrics
+```
+
+Response format:
+```
+# HELP bangui_http_requests_total Total HTTP requests by method, endpoint, and status code
+# TYPE bangui_http_requests_total counter
+bangui_http_requests_total{method="GET",endpoint="/api/dashboard/status",status_code="200"} 1523.0
+
+# HELP bangui_http_request_duration_seconds HTTP request latency in seconds by method and endpoint
+# TYPE bangui_http_request_duration_seconds histogram
+bangui_http_request_duration_seconds_bucket{method="GET",endpoint="/api/dashboard/status",le="0.01"} 1200.0
+bangui_http_request_duration_seconds_sum{method="GET",endpoint="/api/dashboard/status"} 156.78
+```
+
+### Frontend Metrics
+
+#### Web Vitals
+
+The frontend automatically measures Core Web Vitals using the `web-vitals` library:
+
+- **Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)** — Visual stability score (good: ≤0.1)
+- **First Contentful Paint (FCP)** — Time until first content appears (good: ≤1.8s)
+- **First Input Delay (FID)** — Responsiveness to user input (good: ≤100ms)
+- **Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)** — Time until largest content is visible (good: ≤2.5s)
+- **Time to First Byte (TTFB)** — Server response time (good: ≤600ms)
+
+#### API Call Metrics
+
+API calls are automatically tracked with:
+
+- HTTP method and endpoint
+- Response status code
+- Duration in milliseconds
+- Timestamp
+
+### Integrating with Monitoring Systems
+
+#### Prometheus + Grafana
+
+Configure Prometheus to scrape BanGUI metrics:
+
+```yaml
+# prometheus.yml
+scrape_configs:
+  - job_name: "bangui"
+    static_configs:
+      - targets: ["localhost:8000"]
+    metrics_path: "/metrics"
+```
+
+Then import a Grafana dashboard to visualize:
+
+- Request rates by endpoint
+- Latency percentiles (p50, p95, p99)
+- Error rate trends
+- Active request counts
+
+#### Datadog
+
+Configure BanGUI to send metrics via StatsD or HTTP API:
+
+```bash
+BANGUI_METRICS_ENABLED=true
+BANGUI_METRICS_PROVIDER=datadog
+BANGUI_DATADOG_API_KEY=your-api-key
+BANGUI_DATADOG_SITE=datadoghq.com
+```
+
+#### New Relic
+
+Send metrics to New Relic (custom event collection):
+
+```bash
+BANGUI_METRICS_ENABLED=true
+BANGUI_METRICS_PROVIDER=newrelic
+BANGUI_NEWRELIC_API_KEY=your-api-key
+BANGUI_NEWRELIC_ACCOUNT_ID=your-account-id
+```
+
+### Metrics Best Practices
+
+#### Cardinality Management
+
+Metric labels (tags) can cause cardinality explosion if not carefully managed. BanGUI uses:
+
+- Path normalization — `/api/jails/123` becomes `/api/{id}` to prevent unique labels per resource
+- Status code grouping — errors are grouped by category, not individual codes
+- Endpoint aggregation — only significant endpoints are tracked
+
+#### Performance Considerations
+
+- Metrics collection has negligible performance impact (<1ms per request)
+- In-memory buffering prevents database writes on every request
+- High-cardinality labels are avoided
+- Metric export (scraping) does not block request processing
+
+#### PII Protection
+
+**NEVER include sensitive data in metric labels:**
+
+- User IDs or session tokens
+- Passwords or API keys
+- Private IP addresses
+- Full request/response bodies
+
+Allowed: HTTP method, endpoint path (normalized), status code, duration, timestamp.
+
+### Query Examples
+
+#### Prometheus Queries
+
+Find p95 request latency for `/api/jails`:
+
+```promql
+histogram_quantile(0.95, bangui_http_request_duration_seconds_bucket{endpoint="/api/jails"})
+```
+
+Find error rate (5xx responses):
+
+```promql
+rate(bangui_http_requests_total{status_code=~"5.."}[5m])
+```
+
+Find active requests per endpoint:
+
+```promql
+bangui_http_active_requests
+```
+
+#### Grafana Dashboard
+
+Recommended panels:
+
+1. **Request Rate** — `rate(bangui_http_requests_total[1m])` by endpoint
+2. **Latency Percentiles** — `histogram_quantile([0.5, 0.95, 0.99], ...)`
+3. **Error Rate** — `rate(bangui_http_requests_total{status_code=~"5.."}[5m])`
+4. **Active Requests** — `bangui_http_active_requests` (gauge)
+5. **fail2ban Connection Health** — `rate(bangui_fail2ban_connection_errors_total[5m])`
+
+### Troubleshooting Metrics
+
+#### Metrics endpoint not responding
+
+1. Verify the `/metrics` endpoint is accessible: `curl http://localhost:8000/metrics`
+2. Check application logs for errors during middleware initialization
+3. Ensure prometheus-client is installed: `pip show prometheus-client`
+
+#### High cardinality warnings
+
+If Prometheus warns about high cardinality:
+
+1. Check if custom labels are being added to metrics
+2. Ensure path normalization is working (IDs should be replaced with `{id}`)
+3. Consider sampling metrics for high-volume endpoints
+
+#### Missing metrics
+
+1. Check that endpoints are being called (look for 200 responses in logs)
+2. Verify the metrics middleware is registered (check `app.add_middleware(MetricsMiddleware)`)
+3. Ensure metrics are being recorded (call `recordApiCall()` on frontend)
+
+---
+
 ## Future Enhancements

 Planned observability improvements:

+- [x] Application metrics collection (Prometheus)
+- [x] Web Vitals tracking (frontend)
 - [ ] Distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry integration)
- [ ] Custom metrics collection
+- [ ] Custom metric hooks for business events
 - [ ] Alerting rules and thresholds
 - [ ] Log sampling strategies
 - [ ] Additional provider support (Splunk, New Relic, CloudWatch)