Your API is down — now what? Capturing failure context in Node.js

Most monitoring tools tell you one thing "Your API is down." That's useful. But only partially. I wanted to go beyond "it's down" and understand why — specifically, where in the request lifecycle things actually broke . The frustrating part of debugging failures The first time this really hit me, I spent almost an hour digging through logs after a 3am alert — only to realize the issue had already disappeared. No trace of what went wrong. Just a gap in the metrics and a resolved status. The typic