also, im scanning the docs, but may be looking in ...
# ask-community-for-troubleshootingj
Jarrod Parkes
08/16/2021, 6:06 PMalso, im scanning the docs, but may be looking in the wrong place. how does Airbyte handle failures for both ingestion and output, and are there any retry mechanisms in place? is there some notion of atomic operations? can a sync fail partially, fully, etc?
j
Jeff Crooks
08/16/2021, 8:26 PMthere are 3 retries, not sure if that setting can be overridden
Jeff Crooks
08/16/2021, 8:26 PMive found that sync fail fully, ie if the extract works and normalization fails, the next exec will start from the beginning
u
[DEPRECATED] Marcos Marx
08/16/2021, 10:50 PM
there are 3 retries, not sure if that setting can be overriddenlast week some contributor made this possible to configurate using env variable 😃
j
Jarrod Parkes
08/17/2021, 12:45 AM@[DEPRECATED] Marcos Marx anything on whether failures are partial or full (sort of like a DB transaction)?
u
[DEPRECATED] Marcos Marx
08/18/2021, 12:25 AM
it depends on your sync type, if you use overwritte this is not a problem. but airbyte is not atomic it'll guarantee at least one delivery message