Document Retry_Limit for output plugins

[Globegitter]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
As a note, I have already asked on Slack but not received any response, so posting here. There is very little mention of Retry_Limit in the docs and nothing at all in the output plugin sections. It would be great to have that documented in all plugins that support that.

And further does the HTTP output plugin support it? I could not find any mention of that anywhere in issues or the docs.

[edsiper]

Sorry about the missing docs. Retry_Limit is applicable to all output plugins, you can do:

• Retry_Limit N (where N is a number >= 1)
• Retry_Limit False (no limits, retry forever)

[Globegitter]

Great thanks for the quick response on that.

[edsiper]

Documented here:

https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/configuration/scheduler

thanks

[vinoth3105]

How to add retry limit in input plugin.

example code :
def on_timer
begin
res = RestClient::Request.execute request_options
record, body = get_record(res)
rescue StandardError => err
record = { "url" => @url, "error" => err.message }
if err.respond_to? :http_code
record["status"] = err.http_code || 0
else
record["status"] = 0
end
end
end

so problem here when we hit the restclient API, if we are not getting any response.
we should handled retryl imit.
how to add retry function in on_timer method, can you please help on that..