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Request IDs & Observability

Request IDs & Observability​

Every PayWise response includes a request_id header. Treat this ID as the anchor for troubleshooting:

  1. Log the request ID on inbound traffic, along with headers that affect routing (environment, api key).
  2. Surface mission-critical errors in dashboards, and correlate with Prometheus/Grafana alerts.
  3. When tracing distributed systems, annotate spans with the request ID so PayWise support can help join the dots.

Pairs well with our rate-limit headers; when you aggregate metrics per request ID you expose hotspots without storing sensitive payloads.