[users@httpd] Industry Acceptable % of Timeout failures (502s)

[Jignesh Badani <jb...@mmsa.com>]

Hello, is there an industry standard for acceptable % of Timeout related 
failures on one's website ?

We have a server farm of 3 Apache RP proxying almost everything to the 
back-end content and app farms of about 40-50 servers. The user base is 
small but fairly active (about 2.5mil hits per day & 17GB-20GB traffic 
served from all RPs combined)

We have a current Timeout related 502 messages of about 0.3% of the total 
successful hits (http 200).  Is that on the high side or acceptable? If 
there is an website about the same, please point me to it.

The reason I ask is that we are very short handed and we cannot go really 
chasing the App or the content folks for every 502s getting logged.

regards
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