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Summary

  • Adds new "Handling errors and retries" section to HTTP Ingest connector docs
  • Documents HTTP 400 responses for schema validation failures
  • Documents HTTP 5XX responses during connector restarts (infrequent, typically <5 seconds)
  • Provides recommended retry strategy with exponential backoff

Context

This addresses a recurring customer question about occasional 500 errors during connector restarts. Recent example: https://estuary-dev.slack.com/archives/C06R0CVD0KZ/p1768528893641379

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  • Verify docs render correctly in preview

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Adds a new section documenting:
- HTTP 400 responses for schema validation failures
- HTTP 5XX responses during connector restarts
- Recommended retry strategy with exponential backoff

This addresses a common customer question about occasional 500 errors
during connector restarts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@jwhartley jwhartley requested review from aeluce and psFried January 21, 2026 00:46
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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LGTM

@jwhartley jwhartley merged commit cbdfe2e into master Jan 21, 2026
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@jwhartley jwhartley deleted the docs/http-ingest-error-handling branch January 21, 2026 02:23
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