Reliability Runbook

LLM API Reliability Notes

Practical guides for LLM API reliability and fallback engineering.

Route health monitored
  1. DetectTimeout or 5xx spike
  2. RouteFallback policy check
  3. VerifyResponse contract smoke test
  4. EscalateHuman review when evidence is thin
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Failure Map

Reliability notes organized by failure mode

Use these notes to decide what to retry, route, stop, or escalate before production traffic is exposed.

01

Timeouts

Timeout budgets, retries, and safe fallback boundaries for LLM API calls.

02

Rate limits

How to identify quota behavior without hiding customer-impacting failures.

03

Fallback routes

Decision rules for switching providers, models, or degraded modes.

04

Incident checks

Smoke tests and evidence requirements before calling a route production-ready.

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