Does System load and Traffic spike affect Failure rate?

[XiaoQin99]

Just want to know if there's a spike in system load and traffic , does it cause the failure rate to increase ?

[Julius_Loman · Accepted solution]

This depends only on the monitored application. Distributed systems typically have processing limits - if your app hits the limit, you might see failure rates. A typical example is HTTP 503 in the case of an overloaded web server.