Zero-Downtime Agents: Handling API Instability

Reliability · updated Mon Feb 23

Operational checklist for handling transient AI API outages.

Steps

  1. Degrade to offline mode with cached data when APIs fail.
  2. Use circuit breakers after repeated failures.
  3. Rotate across regions for high availability.
  4. Return timeouts with user-facing delay notices.
  5. Log payloads to enable safe retries.

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