notify/webex: retry on 429 and honor Retry-After header - #5548
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe Webex notifier retries HTTP 429 responses, drains response bodies, honors positive integer ChangesWebex retry handling
Priority: ⬇️ Low — Defer this Webex notifier change because it narrowly improves 429 retry handling and Retry-After behavior without broader product-surface impact. Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Webex notifications now retry rate-limited responses and honor retry delays, but an excessively large Retry-After value can cause retries to proceed without the requested delay. Bound the parsed delay before merge or explicitly accept this limited rate-limit compliance risk. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@notify/webex/webex.go`:
- Line 142: Update parseRetryAfter to validate seconds against the maximum
representable time.Duration value before multiplying by time.Second; reject
overflow-prone Retry-After values such as 9223372037 while preserving normal
valid-duration parsing.
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| if err != nil || seconds <= 0 { | ||
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| return time.Duration(seconds) * time.Second |
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Handle time.Duration overflow.
A valid Retry-After: 9223372037 value overflows when parseRetryAfter multiplies it by time.Second. The resulting non-positive duration causes the retry path to skip the wait and retry immediately. Reject values above the representable time.Duration range before multiplication.
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In `@notify/webex/webex.go` at line 142, Update parseRetryAfter to validate
seconds against the maximum representable time.Duration value before multiplying
by time.Second; reject overflow-prone Retry-After values such as 9223372037
while preserving normal valid-duration parsing.
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same comment remains unresolved in the Slack PR and I wanted to keep them as close as possible: #5048 (review)
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@maxnitze, understood. Keeping Webex aligned with the unresolved Slack implementation is reasonable. The thread can remain open until both notifiers use the same shared Retry-After behavior.
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Repo: prometheus/alertmanager PR: 5389
File: notify/util.go:244-264
Timestamp: 2026-07-16T17:41:35.140Z
Learning: In the Go `notify` package, implement `Retry-After` handling without introducing arbitrary client-side delay caps just as a defensive measure. The governing RFC does not mandate a maximum cap, and normal notification-server behavior should be trusted. If `Retry-After` values fall outside valid `time.Duration` representation (parsing/overflow), treat that as a separate validation/error-handling concern rather than tightening retry-policy limits.
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I wonder if we should rather not copy the retry code from slack to webex, but rather put it in a common module that notifiers can reuse, as part of this change, and also fix this issue for all in one place only?
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That's exactly what #5389 (the PR mentioned in the comment) aims at. If that one gets merged, I'll happily rebase and remove this code :)
Signed-off-by: Max Nitze <max.nitze@mgm-tp.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Nitze <max.nitze@mgm-tp.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Nitze <max.nitze@mgm-tp.com>
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The Webex notifier is built with a bare
notify.Retrier{}, so only 5xx is retried. A 429 is classified unrecoverable and the notification is dropped after one attempt (notify retry canceled due to unrecoverable error after 1 attempts).Webex is the outlier here.
discord,jira,opsgenie,slack,incidentioandpagerdutyalready set
RetryCodesfor 429.Follows the implementation for Slack in #5048 (see also #2112, #2128). With one divergence: Slack drains via
defer, so the body stays open for the wholeRetry-Afterwait, pinning one connection per throttled receiver. This PR drains explicitly right afterRetrier.Check.parseRetryAfteris a local copy of Slack's private helper. I'd rather use a shared one. Happy to rebase ontonotify.ParseRetryAfterfrom #5389 once it lands, or to drop this hunk if you'd prefer webex wait for the genericRetrierwork. The code carries aTODOpointing at #5389.Pull Request Checklist
Which user-facing changes does this PR introduce?