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Bad Configuration Rollout
A configuration change just went out that set the API service's request-rate limit far below normal traffic levels. Legitimate requests are being rejected immediately, and the rejection rate is climbing fast. Diagnose whether this is a capacity problem or a configuration problem, and restore healthy traffic before the impact compounds.
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Expected Time
- ~10 min
- Category
- Deployments & Reliability
Skills
- Distinguishing configuration issues from capacity issues
- Config revert and rollback decision making
- Change freeze tradeoffs during active incidents
- Recognizing plausible-but-harmful mitigations
System Architecture
- Config Service
- API Service
- Backend Service
- Client
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