Circuit Breaker is live!

Handling millions of requests a day?

Retries and fallbacks work for quick failures, but when a target has prolonged failures, they can trigger cascading effects that may lead to increased load and latency across the board.

Circuit breakers fix this. They monitor failures and latency, and stop routing to degraded targets until they recover.

Portkey now supports circuit breakers in configs, because at scale, slow is the new downtime. Learn more