diff --git a/api/routes/sessions.ts b/api/routes/sessions.ts
index 6291f1b..7cefb27 100644
--- a/api/routes/sessions.ts
+++ b/api/routes/sessions.ts
@@ -46,7 +46,18 @@ export function createSessionsRouter(db: SessionsDb): Router {
       const { events } = await parseSessionFile(session.jsonl_path)
       return res.json({ meta: session, events })
     } catch (err) {
-      return res.status(500).json({ error: 'Failed to parse session', message: (err as Error).message })
+      const e = err as NodeJS.ErrnoException
+      if (e.code === 'ENOENT') {
+        return res.status(410).json({
+          error: 'Session file missing (stale index)',
+          session_id: parsed.data.id,
+        })
+      }
+      const isProduction = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production'
+      return res.status(500).json({
+        error: 'Failed to parse session',
+        ...(isProduction ? {} : { message: e.message }),
+      })
     }
   })
 
diff --git a/api/server.ts b/api/server.ts
index 6c8c19b..c208986 100755
--- a/api/server.ts
+++ b/api/server.ts
@@ -140,6 +140,16 @@ app.use('/api/operations', operationsRouter)
 const sessionsDb = openSessionsDb(process.env.OBSERVABILIDADE_DB ?? DEFAULT_DB_PATH)
 app.use('/api/sessions', createSessionsRouter(sessionsDb))
 
+function closeSessionsDb(): void {
+  try {
+    sessionsDb.close()
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.error('[sessionsDb] erro ao fechar:', err)
+  }
+}
+process.on('SIGTERM', closeSessionsDb)
+process.on('SIGINT', closeSessionsDb)
+
 // Serve static files in production
 if (isProduction) {
   // __dirname is /app/api/dist, need to go up 2 levels to /app/dist