[bpodgursky]

At a previous job, all API errors were emailed to internal email lists.

The dev monitoring the API health kept track of system health by looking at the number of unread messages in his inbox. If the number of unread messages went up by < 100,000 in a day, the API was doing fine. If there were a couple million new messages, it means we were having problems.

So... I can definitely see how this is plausible, if not uh, "best practice".

[hpkuarg]

This pains me physically to read, haha.

[aitchnyu]

We used this Django feature as a poor man's Sentry years back.