Sidekiq: change rate of retry for failed job?

Question

I have jobs of a particular type that I'd like to have retry more frequently than set by the default Sidekiq interval. Is this currently possible? Ideally the job would retry every 5 seconds for up to a minute. Not entirely sure this is currently something that's trivial to plugin to a Sidekiq job.

score 33 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 26 '13 at 17:06

33

According to: https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/wiki/Error-Handling you can do this:

class Worker
  include Sidekiq::Worker

  sidekiq_retry_in do |count|
    5
  end
end

answered Dec 26 '13 at 17:06

Bart

2,606
21
32

7

Please notice that `5` is counted in seconds – Neodelf Mar 30 '17 at 08:12

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 25 '22 at 23:26

1

If you need other range, can use minute syntax

sidekiq_retry_in do |_count|
  10.minutes
end

answered Nov 25 '22 at 23:26

CHBLU

11
2

This will work in sidekiq 5 and 7 but not 6 as per https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/issues/5806 – RMK Feb 27 '23 at 15:08
It is true! I did not know this – CHBLU Mar 27 '23 at 20:27

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 22 '23 at 03:59

1

I'm answering if calling 10.minutes in the block works, because I can't comment on an answer.

According to the Sidekiq code, you need to pass an Integer, or either :kill or :discard symbols.

10.minutes returns an instance of ActiveSupport::Duration

This means that the following would work:

class Worker
  include Sidekiq::Worker

  sidekiq_retry_in { 10.minutes.to_i }
end

Source

answered Feb 22 '23 at 03:59

antonpot

41
9

In sidekiq 7 this has been fixed (https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/issues/5806), durations should now work as before – RMK Feb 27 '23 at 15:09

Sidekiq: change rate of retry for failed job?

3 Answers3