elastic/kibana

Retry elasticserach API call utility

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#232,666 opened on Aug 22, 2025

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Description

In https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/228315 we're exposing an isRetryableEsClientError utility, but it's only really useful if you're going to retry the API request that produced the retryable error. Core should expose such a function to remove the need for plugins to implement this themselves.

The function should take as input another function to test whether a response error is retryable (e.g. isRetryableEsClientError) and a configurable amount of retries.

Blocked as this might be better implemented in the client: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-js/issues/1139

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Research direction
Investigate the linked PR and ES client issue to determine if the retry logic should be implemented in the client or in Kibana core. Then design a utility function that takes a retryable error test function and a configurable number of retries, and implements exponential backoff.
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typescriptnodejs
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api
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1-2 days
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Clear
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TypeScriptElasticsearch basics
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