[humanrebar]

I think you misunderstand the use case. If your container is tracking work done and it thinks 20 requests were handled and only 10 were received, you have an invariant failure. Without more context, this could easily be trashed memory, in which case, you might already be in the middle of undefined behavior. In that case, getting the hell out of the process is the most responsible course of action. Efforts to even log what happened could be counterproductive. You might log inaccurate info or write garbage to the DB.

Also, if you don't catch an exception in C++, most systems will give you a full core, which includes a stack trace for all running threads. Catching an exception and 'exiting cleanly' actually loses that information.