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Problem solvingAug 7, 2026·1 entry

a silent 502 that only hit 2% of traffic

No spike in CPU. Error budgets looked fine at a glance. Users still reported blank pages in a thin slice of traffic. Logs only showed upstream resets with no clear application exception. The culprit was a stale keep-alive timeout between nginx and the app. Aligning idle timeouts stopped the intermittent 502s within an hour. We also added a dashboard for upstream reset reasons so the next page is faster.

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MMohit Agarwal
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Problem solvingJul 28, 2026·1 entry

a silent 502 that only hit 2% of traffic

No spike in CPU. Error budgets looked fine at a glance. Users still reported blank pages in a thin slice of traffic. Logs only showed upstream resets with no clear application exception. The culprit was a stale keep-alive timeout between nginx and the app. Aligning idle timeouts stopped the intermittent 502s within an hour. We also added a dashboard for upstream reset reasons so the next page is faster.

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kumar p
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Problem solvingJul 18, 2026·1 entry

a silent 502 that only hit 2% of traffic

No spike in CPU. Error budgets looked fine at a glance. Users still reported blank pages in a thin slice of traffic. Logs only showed upstream resets with no clear application exception. The culprit was a stale keep-alive timeout between nginx and the app. Aligning idle timeouts stopped the intermittent 502s within an hour. We also added a dashboard for upstream reset reasons so the next page is faster.

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NNandini Rao
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Problem solvingJul 18, 2026·1 entry

a silent 502 that only hit 2% of traffic

No spike in CPU. Error budgets looked fine at a glance. Users still reported blank pages in a thin slice of traffic. Logs only showed upstream resets with no clear application exception. The culprit was a stale keep-alive timeout between nginx and the app. Aligning idle timeouts stopped the intermittent 502s within an hour. We also added a dashboard for upstream reset reasons so the next page is faster.

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UUday Kiran
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Problem solvingJul 16, 2026·1 entry

a silent 502 that only hit 2% of traffic

No spike in CPU. Error budgets looked fine at a glance. Users still reported blank pages in a thin slice of traffic. Logs only showed upstream resets with no clear application exception. The culprit was a stale keep-alive timeout between nginx and the app. Aligning idle timeouts stopped the intermittent 502s within an hour. We also added a dashboard for upstream reset reasons so the next page is faster.

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MMahesh Babu
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Problem solvingJul 16, 2026·1 entry

a silent 502 that only hit 2% of traffic

No spike in CPU. Error budgets looked fine at a glance. Users still reported blank pages in a thin slice of traffic. Logs only showed upstream resets with no clear application exception. The culprit was a stale keep-alive timeout between nginx and the app. Aligning idle timeouts stopped the intermittent 502s within an hour. We also added a dashboard for upstream reset reasons so the next page is faster.

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SSowmya Rani
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Problem solvingJul 28, 2026·1 entry

a silent 502 that only hit 2% of traffic

No spike in CPU. Error budgets looked fine at a glance. Users still reported blank pages in a thin slice of traffic. Logs only showed upstream resets with no clear application exception. The culprit was a stale keep-alive timeout between nginx and the app. Aligning idle timeouts stopped the intermittent 502s within an hour. We also added a dashboard for upstream reset reasons so the next page is faster.

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OOwen Hart
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Problem solvingAug 7, 2026·1 entry

a silent 502 that only hit 2% of traffic

No spike in CPU. Error budgets looked fine at a glance. Users still reported blank pages in a thin slice of traffic. Logs only showed upstream resets with no clear application exception. The culprit was a stale keep-alive timeout between nginx and the app. Aligning idle timeouts stopped the intermittent 502s within an hour. We also added a dashboard for upstream reset reasons so the next page is faster.

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AAarav Sharma
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Problem solvingAug 9, 2026·1 entry

a silent 502 that only hit 2% of traffic

No spike in CPU. Error budgets looked fine at a glance. Users still reported blank pages in a thin slice of traffic. Logs only showed upstream resets with no clear application exception. The culprit was a stale keep-alive timeout between nginx and the app. Aligning idle timeouts stopped the intermittent 502s within an hour. We also added a dashboard for upstream reset reasons so the next page is faster.

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TTarun Khurana
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Problem solvingJul 14, 2026·1 entry

a silent 502 that only hit 2% of traffic

No spike in CPU. Error budgets looked fine at a glance. Users still reported blank pages in a thin slice of traffic. Logs only showed upstream resets with no clear application exception. The culprit was a stale keep-alive timeout between nginx and the app. Aligning idle timeouts stopped the intermittent 502s within an hour. We also added a dashboard for upstream reset reasons so the next page is faster.

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GGrace Okonkwo
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Problem solvingJul 6, 2026·1 entry

a silent 502 that only hit 2% of traffic

No spike in CPU. Error budgets looked fine at a glance. Users still reported blank pages in a thin slice of traffic. Logs only showed upstream resets with no clear application exception. The culprit was a stale keep-alive timeout between nginx and the app. Aligning idle timeouts stopped the intermittent 502s within an hour. We also added a dashboard for upstream reset reasons so the next page is faster.

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JJulia Berg
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Problem solvingAug 3, 2026·1 entry

a silent 502 that only hit 2% of traffic

No spike in CPU. Error budgets looked fine at a glance. Users still reported blank pages in a thin slice of traffic. Logs only showed upstream resets with no clear application exception. The culprit was a stale keep-alive timeout between nginx and the app. Aligning idle timeouts stopped the intermittent 502s within an hour. We also added a dashboard for upstream reset reasons so the next page is faster.

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MMarta Kowalski
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