---
title: "Maintenance"
description: "Enhance your system's health, security, and storage through load balancing, encryption, and compression strategies. (Gitana 4.0)"
product: "Gitana"
version: "4.0"
url: "/documentation/gitana/4.0/self-managed/maintenance/overview"
---

# Maintenance

## Operations

- [Health Check / Load Balancers](/documentation/gitana/4.0/self-managed/maintenance/healthcheck.md): place a load balancer in front of both your API and UI clusters.

## Security

- [Encrypting Properties](/documentation/gitana/4.0/self-managed/maintenance/encrypting-properties.md): encrypt sensitive passwords, secrets and credentials within your API configuration files.

## Storage

- [Repository Compression](/documentation/gitana/4.0/self-managed/maintenance/compression.md): reduce a repository's size by removing states from its changeset history.