The gateway's fail-safe system guarantees service continuity through a three-layer protection mechanism:
- Real-time health monitoring: Continuously detects the response status of each vendor's API endpoints and triggers a backup policy when a timeout or error code is detected
- Automated switching: When the primary model is not available, the system will automatically route to the backup model based on preset rules (e.g., cost-first/performance-first), and the switchover process will be transparent to end-users
- downgrade strategy: Support for configuring multiple levels of alternate models, with the ability to continue switching down when the preferred alternate model is also disabled
Typical application scenarios include:
- OpenAI API automatically cuts to Claude model when temporarily limiting flow
- Degraded use of GPT-3.5 in case of xAI service outage
- Decentralize requests to multiple vendors during high load times
This mechanism results in a significant increase in the overall SLA (Service Level Agreement) of the application, which is particularly suitable for production environments with stringent stability requirements.
This answer comes from the articleVercel AI Gateway: a gateway to manage and optimize AI application requestsThe
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