Connection reset by peer

Problem:

What is the meaning of this error in the agent logs?

2018-09-25T17:50:45.763+0000 | ERROR | na-http-thread-2 | AgentHttpServiceImpl | 29 - com.instana.agent - 1.1.455 | Exception while handling http request
java.io.IOException: Connection reset by peer

Solution:

The reason for this error is that the connection between the agent and the backend got interrupted. It has no impact on performance, data that was in transit when it occurred might be lost. Any kind of network issues are handled by the agent. Data is dropped to avoid overloading.