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Monitor and SLO headless channel API reliability

Real World Scenario

Mobile app crash reports spike during checkout but Salesforce dashboards show green API availability.

Expected Answer

• Define SLOs from client perspective: p95 checkout API latency and error rate • Synthetic transactions from mobile user agents in key geographies • Distributed tracing correlating client errors to backend span failures • Real user monitoring capturing failed API responses with sanitized payloads • Error budget policy pausing releases when SLO breached • Status page communicating incidents to app teams and partners • Blameless postmortems distinguishing client bugs vs API regressions

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Main difference: use case and scale. Define SLOs from client perspective: p95 checkout API latency and error rate. Synthetic transactions from mobile user agents in key geographies. Pick based on your integration pattern and team capability. Server-green/client-red is common—architects instrument end-to-end SLOs, not just Salesforce org health. Balance speed of delivery with maintainability.

Architect Perspective

Server-green/client-red is common—architects instrument end-to-end SLOs, not just Salesforce org health.