Anatomy
LLM APIs overload in provider-specific shapes. This specimen returns the OpenAI-style 503-shaped overload error. Retry logic for AI workloads needs to distinguish "overloaded — back off" from hard failures, and streaming clients must handle it mid-generation.
Source: OpenAI API — error codes
Replay it
curl -i https://faultydata.com/r/FD-2026-009
// response appears here
Signature
{Status:503 Headers:map[Retry-After:15] Body:{"error":{"message":"The engine is currently overloaded, please try again later","type":"server_error","code":"overloaded"}} Corrupt: Delay:<nil> Flaky:<nil> Sequence:<nil> Drip:<nil> StallAfter:0 Hang:false Phases:[]}