Focusing on Client Side Errors

Client-side errors

In a distributed system, clients often access the service via an HTTP request. We can monitor our web and application servers’ logs if a request fails to process. If multiple requests fail, we can observe a spike in internal errors (error 500).

Those errors whose root cause is on the client-side are hard to respond to because the service has little to no insight into the client’s system. We might try to look for a dip in the load (as compared to averages) ...