Errors and retries

Handling errors and retries with the Trigger.dev management API

Handling errors

When the SDK method is unable to connect to the API server, or the API server returns a non-successful response, the SDK will throw an ApiError that you can catch and handle:

import { runs, APIError } from "@trigger.dev/sdk";

async function main() {
  try {
    const run = await runs.retrieve("run_1234");
  } catch (error) {
    if (error instanceof ApiError) {
      console.error(`API error: ${error.status}, ${error.headers}, ${error.body}`);
    } else {
      console.error(`Unknown error: ${error.message}`);
    }
  }
}

Retries

The SDK will automatically retry requests that fail due to network errors or server errors. By default, the SDK will retry requests up to 3 times, with an exponential backoff delay between retries.

You can customize the retry behavior by passing a requestOptions option to the configure function:

import { configure } from "@trigger.dev/sdk";

configure({
  requestOptions: {
    retry: {
      maxAttempts: 5,
      minTimeoutInMs: 1000,
      maxTimeoutInMs: 5000,
      factor: 1.8,
      randomize: true,
    },
  },
});

All SDK functions also take a requestOptions parameter as the last argument, which can be used to customize the request options. You can use this to disable retries for a specific request:

import { runs } from "@trigger.dev/sdk";

async function main() {
  const run = await runs.retrieve("run_1234", {
    retry: {
      maxAttempts: 1, // Disable retries
    },
  });
}

When running inside a task, the SDK ignores customized retry options for certain functions (e.g., task.trigger, task.batchTrigger), and uses retry settings optimized for task execution.