We suddenly began experiencing HTTP 502 errors (The specified CGI application encountered an error and the server terminated the process) from one of the instances of our web app. I was able to determine this using Kudu's "Support" tab whereby you can drill down to metrics per instance.
After restarting w3wp for the instance everything continued successfully as normal. There were no problems with resource usage (CPU/RAM) and the odd thing is that the 502s were returning instantly. So, requests weren't timing out for the client.
What are the possible steps to investigate why this happened?
Our application logs wouldn't have anything and our web server logs only have the record of these 502 but with no further details.