1m_successful

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1m_successful

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HTTP response status codes indicate whether a specific HTTP request has been successfully completed or not.

The Netdata Agent calculates the ratio of successful HTTP requests over the last minute. These requests consist of 1xx, 2xx, 304, 401 response codes. You receive this alert in warning when the percentage of successful requests is less than 85% and in critical when it is below 75%. This alert can indicate:

  • A malfunction in the services of your web server
  • Malicious activity towards your website
  • Broken links towards your servers.

In most cases, the Agent will send you another alert indicating high incidences of “abnormal” HTTP requests code, for example you could also receive the 1m_bad_requests alert.

See more about the response codes this alert track

The response codes below contain the descriptions as provided by Mozilla. 1

Information responses (1XX)

  • 100 Continue:This interim response indicates that the client should continue the request or ignore the response if the request is already finished.

  • 101 Switching Protocol: This code is sent in response to an Upgrade request header from the client and indicates the protocol the server is switching to.

  • 102 Processing (WebDAV):
    This code indicates that the server has received and is processing the request, but no response is available yet.

  • 103 Early Hints: This status code is primarily intended to be used with the link header, letting the user agent start preloading resources while the server prepares a response.

Successful responses (2XX)

  • 200 OK: The request succeeded. The result meaning of “success” depends on the HTTP method:

    • GET: The resource has been fetched and transmitted in the message body.
    • HEAD: The representation headers are included in the response without any message body.
    • PUT or POST: The resource describing the result of the action is transmitted in the message
      body.
    • TRACE: The message body contains the request message as received by the server.

  • 201 Created: The request succeeded, and a new resource created as a result. This is typically the response sent after POST requests, or some PUT requests.

  • 202 Accepted: The request has been received but not yet acted upon. It is noncommittal, since there is no way in HTTP to later send an asynchronous response indicating the outcome of the request. It is intended for cases where another process or server handles the request, or for batch processing.

  • 203 Non-Authoritative Information: This response code means the returned metadata is not exactly the same as is available from the origin server, but is collected from a local or a third-party copy. This is mostly used for mirrors or backups of another resource. Except for that specific case, the 200 OK response is preferred to this status.

  • 204 No Content: There is no content to send for this request, but the headers may be useful. The user agent may update its cached headers for this resource with the new ones.

  • 205 Reset Content: Tells the user agent to reset the document which sent this request.

  • 206 Partial Content: This response code is used when the range header is sent from the client to request only part of a resource.

  • 207 Multi-Status (WebDAV):
    Conveys information about multiple resources, for situations where multiple status codes might be appropriate.

  • 208 Already Reported (WebDAV):
    Used inside a dav:propstat response element to avoid repeatedly enumerating the internal members of multiple bindings to the same collection.

  • 226 IM Used (HTTP Delta encoding):
    The server has fulfilled a GET request for the resource, and the response is a representation of the result of one or more instance-manipulations applied to the current instance.

Redirection messages (3XX)

  • _304 Not Modified _: This is used for caching purposes. It tells the client that the response has not
    been modified, so the client can continue to use the same cached version of the response.

Client error responses (4XX)

  • 401 Unauthorized: Although the HTTP standard specifies “unauthorized”, semantically this response
    means “unauthenticated”. That is, the client must authenticate itself to get the requested response.
References and Sources
  1. HTTP status codes on Mozilla

Troubleshooting section:

There are a number of reasons triggering this alert. All of them could eventually cause bad user
experience with your web services.

General approach

Identify exactly what HTTP response code your web server sent back to your clients. Open the Netdata dashboard and inspect the detailed_response_codes chart for your web server. This chart keeps track of exactly what error codes your web server sends out.