A city NOC dashboard consumes Meraki and DNA Center data. Meraki returns 5xx while DNA Center is healthy. Which design response is appropriate?
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Short Explanation
If one weather station goes dark, you still show the working gauges and flag the missing one. Partial availability beats all-or-nothing page failure. Failing the whole dashboard for one 5xx is the anti-pattern.
Full Explanation
A dashboard that consumes two Cisco sources should still render the healthy one and mark the other stale or unavailable. Failing the whole page because one hop returned 5xx is the anti-pattern. This is design-level graceful degradation, not Domain 2 retry or backoff implementation detail.