Introducing Traces and HTTP Failures in PHP APM

• Root Cause Analysis: When a transaction encounters errors or unexpected behavior, transaction traces can help you trace the root cause of the issue by providing a record of the transaction's execution.
• Understanding Transaction Flow: Transaction traces help you understand how transactions flow through your application, including interactions with external services, databases, and third-party APIs.
• Code Efficiency: Transaction traces highlight areas of your code base that contribute most to transaction latency or resource consumption.
• Monitoring Service-Level Agreements (SLAs): Transaction traces help you monitor and enforce service-level agreements by measuring key performance indicators such as response time, throughput, and error rate for individual transactions.

Atatus' HTTP failure request handling feature is useful for several reasons:

• Improved Reliability: Automatically retrying failed HTTP requests or implementing fallback mechanisms helps improve applications' reliability and resilience, reducing the risk of service disruptions and downtime.
• Increased Performance: The feature can help optimize application performance by identifying and addressing issues related to HTTP request failures, such as network latency, server errors, or misconfigurations.
• Error Insights: It provides valuable insights into the root causes of HTTP failures, including error codes, response times, and error rates, facilitating troubleshooting and problem resolution.
• Alerting and Notifications: Atatus' HTTP failure request handling feature can trigger alerts and notifications based on predefined thresholds or anomalies, enabling teams to address issues and prevent service degradation proactively.