Sidekiq Retries

Official doc: https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/wiki/Error-Handling#automatic-job-retry

Sidekiq’s built-in auto-retry mechanism will catch exceptions happened inside Worker. Retry the jobs regularly.

Sidekiq defaults to using 25 retries for about 21 days. After 25 retries, failed job goes to Dead set.

After 6 month, Sidekiq discard jobs from Dead set.

You should evaluate your Worker and consider only retry couple of times for external services:

# Next retry backoff Total waiting time
1 0d 0h 0m 20s 0d 0h 0m 20s
2 0d 0h 0m 26s 0d 0h 0m 46s
3 0d 0h 0m 46s 0d 0h 1m 32s
4 0d 0h 1m 56s 0d 0h 3m 28s
5 0d 0h 4m 56s 0d 0h 8m 24s
6 0d 0h 11m 10s 0d 0h 19m 34s
7 0d 0h 22m 26s 0d 0h 42m 0s
8 0d 0h 40m 56s 0d 1h 22m 56s
9 0d 1h 9m 16s 0d 2h 32m 12s
10 0d 1h 50m 26s 0d 4h 22m 38s
11 0d 2h 47m 50s 0d 7h 10m 28s
12 0d 4h 5m 16s 0d 11h 15m 44s
13 0d 5h 46m 56s 0d 17h 2m 40s
14 0d 7h 57m 26s 1d 1h 0m 6s
15 0d 10h 41m 46s 1d 11h 41m 52s
16 0d 14h 5m 20s 2d 1h 47m 12s
17 0d 18h 13m 56s 2d 20h 1m 8s
18 0d 23h 13m 46s 3d 19h 14m 54s
19 1d 5h 11m 26s 5d 0h 26m 20s
20 1d 12h 13m 56s 6d 12h 40m 16s
21 1d 20h 28m 40s 8d 9h 8m 56s
22 2d 6h 3m 26s 10d 15h 12m 22s
23 2d 17h 6m 26s 13d 8h 18m 48s
24 3d 5h 46m 16s 16d 14h 5m 4s
25 3d 20h 11m 56s 20d 10h 17m 0s