Problem
Scenario
You are supporting a client data integration and the failures do not happen on every run. Some syncs complete normally, while others partially load, time out, or produce inconsistent records. You need a structured way to isolate whether the issue is in orchestration, payload quality, retries, or the integration tooling itself.
Question
What steps would you take to troubleshoot a client integration that is failing intermittently?
What to Inspect
- Run history and retry patterns in Apache Airflow
- Source API status codes, timeouts, and rate limits
- Schema drift, null spikes, and duplicate business keys
- Snowflake load errors and partial file ingestion
- Correlation IDs across Avetta connector logs and downstream tables
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