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notify/webex: retry on 429 and honor Retry-After header #5548

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30 changes: 29 additions & 1 deletion notify/webex/webex.go
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Expand Up @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ import (
"encoding/json"
"log/slog"
"net/http"
"strconv"
"time"

commoncfg "github.com/prometheus/common/config"

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -54,7 +56,7 @@ func New(c *config.WebexConfig, t *template.Template, l *slog.Logger, httpOpts .
tmpl: t,
logger: l,
client: client,
retrier: &notify.Retrier{},
retrier: &notify.Retrier{RetryCodes: []int{http.StatusTooManyRequests}},
}

return n, nil
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -107,9 +109,35 @@ func (n *Notifier) Notify(ctx context.Context, as ...*types.Alert) (bool, error)
}

shouldRetry, err := n.retrier.Check(resp.StatusCode, resp.Body)
// Not deferred: Check has already consumed the body, and the connection must be
// released before the Retry-After wait below rather than held for its duration.
notify.Drain(resp)

if err != nil {
if resp.StatusCode == http.StatusTooManyRequests {
if d := parseRetryAfter(resp.Header.Get("Retry-After")); d > 0 {
logger.Warn("Rate limited by Webex, waiting before retry", "retry_after_secs", d.Seconds())
select {
case <-time.After(d):
case <-ctx.Done():
}
}
}
return shouldRetry, notify.NewErrorWithReason(notify.GetFailureReasonFromStatusCode(resp.StatusCode), err)
}

return false, nil
}

// parseRetryAfter parses Retry-After as seconds; 0 if empty, invalid, or non-positive.
// TODO: switch to notify.ParseRetryAfter once upstream #5389 merges a shared helper.
func parseRetryAfter(val string) time.Duration {
if val == "" {
return 0
}
seconds, err := strconv.Atoi(val)
if err != nil || seconds <= 0 {
return 0
}
return time.Duration(seconds) * time.Second

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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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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Seems like the humans are having a chat. I'll hop back into my burrow for now. If you need me again, just tag @coderabbitai in a new comment, and I'll come hopping out!

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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 :)

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85 changes: 84 additions & 1 deletion notify/webex/webex_test.go
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Expand Up @@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ func TestWebexRetry(t *testing.T) {
)
require.NoError(t, err)

for statusCode, expected := range test.RetryTests(test.DefaultRetryCodes()) {
retryCodes := append(test.DefaultRetryCodes(), http.StatusTooManyRequests)
for statusCode, expected := range test.RetryTests(retryCodes) {
actual, _ := notifier.retrier.Check(statusCode, nil)
require.Equal(t, expected, actual, "error on status %d", statusCode)
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -169,6 +170,88 @@ func TestWebexTemplating(t *testing.T) {
}
}

func TestWebexRetryAfterSleep(t *testing.T) {
srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
w.Header().Set("Retry-After", "1")
w.WriteHeader(http.StatusTooManyRequests)
}))
defer srv.Close()
u, err := url.Parse(srv.URL)
require.NoError(t, err)

notifier, err := New(
&config.WebexConfig{
HTTPConfig: &commoncfg.HTTPClientConfig{},
APIURL: &amcommoncfg.URL{URL: u},
},
test.CreateTmpl(t),
promslog.NewNopLogger(),
)
require.NoError(t, err)

ctx := notify.WithGroupKey(context.Background(), "1")
alert := &types.Alert{
Alert: model.Alert{
Labels: model.LabelSet{"lbl1": "val1"},
StartsAt: time.Now(),
EndsAt: time.Now().Add(time.Hour),
},
}

start := time.Now()
retry, err := notifier.Notify(ctx, alert)
elapsed := time.Since(start)

require.True(t, retry)
require.Error(t, err)
require.GreaterOrEqual(t, elapsed, 1*time.Second, "should have waited at least 1 second for Retry-After")
}

func TestWebexRetryAfterContextCancelled(t *testing.T) {
srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
w.Header().Set("Retry-After", "2")
w.WriteHeader(http.StatusTooManyRequests)
}))
defer srv.Close()
u, err := url.Parse(srv.URL)
require.NoError(t, err)

notifier, err := New(
&config.WebexConfig{
HTTPConfig: &commoncfg.HTTPClientConfig{},
APIURL: &amcommoncfg.URL{URL: u},
},
test.CreateTmpl(t),
promslog.NewNopLogger(),
)
require.NoError(t, err)

ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
ctx = notify.WithGroupKey(ctx, "1")

// Cancel context after a short delay to interrupt the Retry-After sleep.
go func() {
time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
cancel()
}()

alert := &types.Alert{
Alert: model.Alert{
Labels: model.LabelSet{"lbl1": "val1"},
StartsAt: time.Now(),
EndsAt: time.Now().Add(time.Hour),
},
}

start := time.Now()
retry, err := notifier.Notify(ctx, alert)
elapsed := time.Since(start)

require.True(t, retry)
require.Error(t, err)
require.Less(t, elapsed, 2*time.Second, "should not have waited the full Retry-After duration")
}

func TestWebexFailureReason(t *testing.T) {
for _, tc := range []struct {
name string
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