1. A method 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; and executing said one or more actions to control admission of one or more requests associated with the dropped request at the one or more additional application components; wherein at least one of the steps is carried out by a computer device.