e="indexterm" data-primary="request latency" id="id-rjCeIOSKFDIaU8"></a><a data-type="indexterm" data-primary="user requests" data-secondary="request latency monitoring" id="id-wqCDtvSGFAIMUQ"></a>The time it takes to service a request. It’s important to distinguish between the latency of successful requests and the latency of failed requests. For example, an HTTP 500 error triggered due to loss of connection to a database or other critical backend might be served very quickly; however, as an HTTP 500 err