The disclosure provides an approach for transferring a packet from a source client to a destination application across a network. The approach generally includes writing an identifier to the packet by a switch, transferring the packet to a distributed log, logging a copy of the packet at the distributed log, and analyzing the packet for misplaced requests. The approach further includes, transmitting the packet from the distributed log to the destination, intercepting the packet by a shim layer and comparing the identifier to a counter maintained by the shim layer, and forwarding the packet to the destination application.