api-troubleshooting

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides a focused runbook to diagnose and triage external and internal API failures that break background jobs, webhooks, and indexing pipelines, helping restore integrations quickly when timeouts, rate limits, authentication errors, or webhook delivery issues occur.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Log-driven diagnosis: Walkthroughs to search Laravel logs, inspect failed jobs, and surface HTTP error patterns (429, 401, 403, 500).
• Endpoint and quota checks: Curl-based health tests, latency breakdowns, API quota verification (e.g., Google Indexing), token validity checks for Meta Ads and other providers.
• Webhook and connectivity debugging: Webhook replay, journalctl and tcpdump guidance, DNS/TLS validation, and artisan queue management to reproduce and remediate failures.
• Use Case: When a NewsApp or MyApp background job silently fails calling Gemini or Google Indexing, use the steps to identify whether the root cause is quota exhaustion, token expiry, DNS/SSL issues, or transient network timeouts.

Quick Start

Inspect recent Laravel HTTP errors, run the curl health and latency checks against the affected API host, and review failed artisan jobs to determine whether the issue is a timeout, rate limit, or authentication problem.