When pushed hard enough any system will eventually suffer, and ultimately fail unless relief is provided in some form. At LinkedIn, we have developed a framework for our microservices to help with these issues: Hodor (Holistic Overload Detection & Overload Remediation). As the name suggests, it is designed to detect service overloads from multiple potential root causes, and to automatically improve the situation by dropping just enough traffic to allow the service to recover. Hodor then maintains an optimal traffic level to prevent the service from reentering overload. All of this is done without manual tuning or specifying thresholds. In this talk, we will introduce Hodor, provide an overview of the framework, describe how it detects overloads, and how requests are dropped to provide relief. Other talks at this conference 🚀🪐 https://www.conf42.com/sre2022 — 0:00 Intro 2:13 Talk