On average, we find about 1.5% of all global data succeeds on a retry, where it did not succeed on the first delivery attempt.
and :
On the graph below, you can see all successful retries split by ‘attempt number’. We typically deliver the majority of messages on their second try (the large yellow bar), but about 50% of retries succeed only on the third through the tenth attempts.
If batches fail to send to a downstream sink, they should retry up to N times with an exponential backoff.
Segment has some nice
In Production
stats here:https://segment.com/blog/introducing-centrifuge/
Specifically:
On average, we find about 1.5% of all global data succeeds on a retry, where it did not succeed on the first delivery attempt.
and :