Readiness and /metrics await the events outbox status: events.status() is async on PostgreSQL, so /api/ready read a promise and reported the running relay as skipped (seen right after the switch).

ddiff --git a/server/observability.js b/server/observability.js
iindex 7f28ba9..c246662 100644
---- a/server/observability.js
++++ b/server/observability.js
@@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ function domainMetrics(registry, { db, recorder, events }) {
      });
      registry.gauge({
          name: 'media_events_outbox', help: 'Events outbox rows waiting to reach OpenVibe.Events, and rows Events rejected', labelNames: ['status'],
--        collect: () => {
--            const s = events.status();
++        collect: async () => {
++            const s = await events.status();
              if (!s.enabled) return null;   // no outbox running: no series, never a made-up zero
              return [{ labels: { status: 'pending' }, value: s.pending }, { labels: { status: 'rejected' }, value: s.rejected }];
          },
@@@ -139,8 +139,8 @@ function createMediaReadiness({ release, db, config, auth, recorder, events, rem
      }
      checks.push({
          name: 'events_outbox', required: false, description: 'durable events to OpenVibe.Events (webhooks are separate)',
--        check: () => {
--            const s = events.status();
++        check: async () => {
++            const s = await events.status();
              if (!s.enabled) return skip('relay off (EVENTS_URL or the service credentials unset)', { enabled: false });   // verified nothing: never ok (WS-Q task 7)
              if (s.pending > OUTBOX_BACKLOG_LIMIT) return { ok: false, error: `${s.pending} events waiting (limit ${OUTBOX_BACKLOG_LIMIT})`, detail: { pending: s.pending } };
              return { ok: true, detail: { pending: s.pending, rejected: s.rejected } };