# Features

URL: /docs/features/
Section: features

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Features Pounce provides a comprehensive feature set for modern web applications, with particular focus on production deployment, observability, and developer experience. Core Protocol Support HTTP/1.1 — Pure Python (h11) + fast built-in parser (~3 µs/req) HTTP/2 — Stream multiplexing, header compression, priority signals WebSocket — Full RFC 6455 support with compression HTTP/3 — QUIC/UDP via bengal-zoomies (requires TLS) Learn more about protocols → Production Features Static File Serving Chunked file serving with ETags, range requests, and pre-compressed file support. Read more → Middleware System ASGI3 middleware stack for request/response transformation. Read more → WebSocket Compression permessage-deflate compression (RFC 7692) with automatic negotiation. Read more → Graceful Reload Zero-downtime code updates with rolling worker restart. Read more → Development Error Pages Rich HTML error pages with syntax highlighting and security-safe production mode. OpenTelemetry Integration Native distributed tracing with automatic span creation and W3C Trace Context. Read more → Connection Draining Production-grade graceful shutdown with Kubernetes support. Read more → Lifecycle Logging Structured event logging for production debugging with correlation IDs. Read more → Observability Structured logging — JSON or text format OpenTelemetry — Native OTLP exporter Lifecycle events — Connection and request tracking Server-Timing headers — Built-in performance metrics Prometheus metrics — Built-in collector Learn more about observability → Development Experience Auto-reload — Watch files and restart on changes Rich error pages — Syntax-highlighted tracebacks CLI interface — Simple command-line usage Type-safe configuration — Validated at startup Get started → Deployment Features Worker management — Threads (3.14t) or processes (GIL) Graceful shutdown — Kubernetes-ready TLS/SSL — TLS 1.3 support Compression — zstd, gzip Health checks — Configurable health check endpoint (opt-in via health_check_path) Deployment guides →

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