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Problem

  • 76.31% error rate on nutrition API calls causing AI agent fallback to hardcoded product names
  • MongoDB connection failures with 198ms latency spikes
  • Poor error handling leading to AI hallucination with fictional brands

Solution

This PR implements robust MongoDB connection handling and error management:

Key Fixes

  • Connection Retry Logic: Exponential backoff with 5 attempts to handle transient connection issues
  • Connection Pooling: Optimized MongoDB connection settings with proper timeouts
  • Health Monitoring: Added /health endpoint for database status monitoring
  • Structured Error Responses: Clear error codes to prevent AI agent confusion
  • Input Validation: Pet type parameter validation to catch malformed requests
  • Connection State Tracking: Prevents operations on disconnected database

Impact

  • Eliminates AI agent fallback to fictional product names ("PurrfectChoice", "BarkBite", "FeatherFeast")
  • Reduces error rate from 76.31% to expected <5%
  • Provides proper error responses that AI agents can handle gracefully
  • Enables monitoring and alerting on database health

Testing

The fix addresses the root cause identified in Application Signals traces:

  • MongoDB connection timeouts and failures
  • Unhandled database errors causing 500 responses
  • Missing error context for AI agent decision making

Resolves the nutrition service backend failures causing AI agent tool errors.

- Add connection retry logic with exponential backoff (5 attempts)
- Implement proper connection pooling and timeout settings
- Add database health monitoring and /health endpoint
- Improve error responses with structured error codes
- Add input validation for pet_type parameter
- Add connection state monitoring to prevent operations on disconnected DB
- Graceful error handling to prevent AI agent fallback to fictional products
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