Merge pull request #1840 from ryanjbaxter/document-hystrix-timeout

Document Hystrix timeout configuration with Ribbon clients
This commit is contained in:
Ryan Baxter
2017-04-05 13:46:50 -04:00
committed by GitHub

View File

@@ -605,6 +605,14 @@ One of the main benefits of Hystrix is the set of metrics it gathers about each
.Hystrix Dashboard
image::Hystrix.png[]
== Hystrix Timeouts And Ribbon Clients
When using Hystrix commands that wrap Ribbon clients you want to make sure your Hystrix timeout
is configured to be longer than the configured Ribbon timeout, including any potential
retries that might be made. For example, if your Ribbon connection timeout is one second and
the Ribbon client might retry the request three times, than your Hystrix timeout should
be slightly more than three seconds.
[[netflix-hystrix-dashboard-starter]]
=== How to Include Hystrix Dashboard