Retry Behavior — Transparent Retries by linkerd-proxy

Retry Behavior — Transparent Retries by linkerd-proxy A sequence diagram generated by Archify. HTTP Request Request #1 503 Service Unavailable Request #2 (retry) Check retry conditions: isRetryable: true · 5xx response · retry budget available 200 OK 200 OK First attempt — fails with 503 Retry — after checking isRetryable: true · budget available, the Client only sees 200 OK Client · calling application · Sequence participant Client calling application linkerd-proxy · sidecar proxy · Sequence participant linkerd-proxy sidecar proxy Backend Service · target service · Sequence participant Backend Service target service Legend request return default message