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by that_james 1430 days ago
> when my systems are sending out a ton of 422s or 400s that's a useful signal to me that something is going on

Why not ping the monitoring when you encounter the business error?

From that perspective, a stream of HTTP errors could indicate a more specific kind of infrastructure failure vs just clients sending garbage.

Happy to admit I'm wrong though, it's why I posted it here, see what others think