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Delivery retries and dead letters

How Fajita retries failed alert deliveries and what a dead-letter state means.

Core
  • Requires integrations:manage

Delivery can fail for reasons outside Fajita: a channel is down, a webhook was deleted, or an endpoint times out. Fajita retries before giving up.

Retry behavior

  • A failed delivery is retried with increasing backoff.
  • Retries stop after a maximum number of attempts.
  • Every attempt is recorded in delivery history with its result.

Dead letters

After the final attempt fails, the delivery moves to a dead-letter state. It is not lost. You can inspect the reason and retry it manually once the destination is fixed.

StateMeaning
DeliveredThe destination returned a success response
RetryingA previous attempt failed and another is scheduled
Dead letterAll attempts failed; awaiting manual retry

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