Add performance, security, and reliability improvements

- Consolidate all 20 API files to use centralized Database helper
- Add optimistic locking to ticket updates to prevent concurrent conflicts
- Add caching to StatsModel (60s TTL) for dashboard performance
- Add health check endpoint (api/health.php) for monitoring
- Improve rate limit cleanup with cron script and efficient DirectoryIterator
- Enable rate limit response headers (X-RateLimit-*)
- Add audit logging for workflow transitions
- Log Discord webhook failures instead of silencing
- Fix visibility check on export_tickets.php
- Add database migration system with performance indexes
- Fix cron recurring tickets to use assignTicket method

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

api/generate_api_key.php

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ ob_start();
 try {
     // Load config
     require_once dirname(__DIR__) . '/config/config.php';
+    require_once dirname(__DIR__) . '/helpers/Database.php';
 
     // Load models
     require_once dirname(__DIR__) . '/models/ApiKeyModel.php';
@@ -71,17 +72,8 @@ try {
         $expiresInDays = null;
     }
 
-    // Create database connection
-    $conn = new mysqli(
-        $GLOBALS['config']['DB_HOST'],
-        $GLOBALS['config']['DB_USER'],
-        $GLOBALS['config']['DB_PASS'],
-        $GLOBALS['config']['DB_NAME']
-    );
-
-    if ($conn->connect_error) {
-        throw new Exception("Database connection failed");
-    }
+    // Use centralized database connection
+    $conn = Database::getConnection();
 
     // Generate API key
     $apiKeyModel = new ApiKeyModel($conn);
@@ -101,8 +93,6 @@ try {
         ['key_name' => $keyName, 'expires_in_days' => $expiresInDays]
     );
 
-    $conn->close();
-
     // Clear output buffer
     ob_end_clean();