I've always thought that the ideal is somewhere in between the two. 1. Catch the panic/exception. 2. Track the rate of these panics or exceptions. If it is to

I've always thought that the ideal is somewhere in between the two. 1. Catch the panic/exception. 2. Track the rate of these panics or exceptions. If it is too high some data structure has probably been corrupted or some lock has been poisoned. If a lot of requests are failing abort. And ideally: 3 signal that you are in a degraded state so that some external process can gracefully drain your traffic and restart you. Although very few people have this level of self-healing infrastructure set up.