How do you test LLM provider failure in production? A Reddit discussion
Rama_Surasani_ · reddit · 2026-09-21
A Reddit thread on testing LLM provider failures in production. The author notes outages affect more than availability—latency, cost, response quality and data-handling behavior all shift. Key questions raised: automatic fallback? retry limits? switch providers or fail the request? how to monitor fallback events and prevent unexpected cost spikes?
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