Common HTTP Error status codes
Here is a list of common HTTP error response codes that you might encounter during your load test:
Client errors (400–499)
- 400 Bad Request – client-side input fails validation.
- 401 Unauthorized – not authorized request to access a resource, usually occurs when the user isn’t authenticated.
- 403 Forbidden – the user is authenticated, but it has not rights to access a resource.
- 404 Not Found – resource is not found.
- 429 Too Many Requests - the user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time ("rate limiting").
Server errors (500–599)
- 500 Internal server error – generic server error
- 502 Bad Gateway – an invalid response from an upstream server.
- 503 Service Unavailable – something unexpected happened on server side (server is overloaded with requests, server cannot handle load).