Retry Strategies

When your webhook fails, RunLater automatically retries with exponential backoff. Here's how to configure it.

How Retries Work

1. First attempt fails
2. Wait retry_delay seconds
3. Wait retry_delay × 2 seconds
4. Wait retry_delay × 4 seconds
5. Continue until max retries reached

Configuration Options

What Triggers a Retry?

• HTTP 5xx errors (server errors)
• Connection timeouts
• Network failures
• DNS resolution failures

What Doesn't Retry?

• HTTP 4xx errors (client errors) – your request needs fixing
• HTTP 2xx (success) – it worked!
• HTTP 3xx (redirects) – followed automatically

Example Retry Timeline

With retry_count: 3 and retry_delay: 60:

Best Practices

• Use higher retry counts for critical webhooks
• Increase timeout for slow endpoints
• Check logs to understand failure patterns
• Don't retry on 4xx – fix the request instead