Retry Budget - CI/CD Glossary Definition

A retry budget caps how many retries a system will attempt within a window, expressed as a fraction of total requests (for example, retries may add at most 10 percent extra load). It prevents retries from amplifying an outage.

Why it matters

Unbounded retries against a struggling dependency create a retry storm that makes the outage worse. A budget lets you recover from transient blips, which is the basis of safe self-healing CI, without overwhelming the thing you depend on.

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