1. An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable instructions tangibly embodied thereon which, when implemented, cause a computer to carry out a plurality of method steps comprising: identifying a request dropped by a first application component in a distributed system; determining one or more actions to take with respect to the dropped request, said determining comprises: identifying one or more policies of the first application component responsible for the dropped request; and identifying one or more additional application components in the distributed system to be affected based on the identified one or more policies; executing, at each of the one or more additional application components, a distinct one of said one or more actions to temporarily preclude admission of all requests of a given type associated with the dropped request at each of the one or more additional application components subsequent to a predetermined number of multiple instances of the request dropped by the first application; enacting a change to the identified one or more policies of the first application component, wherein the change renders the request dropped by the first application component allowable by the first application component; and transmitting a notification to the one or more additional application components to allow admission of one or more requests associated with the dropped request.