--- title: Fault Tolerance in LangGraph: Retries, Timeouts, and... description: LangGraph provides three built-in fault tolerance primitives for production agents: RetryPolicy for automatic retries with exponential backoff and jitter,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/fault-tolerance-in-langgraph-retries-timeouts-and-error-handlers-nxgkyke48 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Fault Tolerance in LangGraph: Retries, Timeouts, and Error Handlers | daily.dev og:description: LangGraph provides three built-in fault tolerance primitives for production agents: RetryPolicy for automatic retries with exponential backoff and jitter,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/fault-tolerance-in-langgraph-retries-timeouts-and-error-handlers-nxgkyke48 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/nXGkYKE48.png og:image:alt: Fault Tolerance in LangGraph: Retries, Timeouts, and Error Handlers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Fault Tolerance in LangGraph: Retries, Timeouts, and Error Handlers **[LangChain](https://daily.dev/sources/langchain)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary LangGraph provides three built-in fault tolerance primitives for production agents: RetryPolicy for automatic retries with exponential backoff and jitter, TimeoutPolicy for wall-clock and idle-based caps on node execution, and error_handler for cleanup logic once retries are exhausted. These primitives attach directly to graph nodes and compose naturally. The post demonstrates their combined use via the SAGA pattern in a multi-step flight booking workflow, where each step (reserve seat, process payment, issue ticket) retries independently, and a compensation node rolls back only completed steps if any step exhausts its retries. The atomic transition into error handlers and persistent state checkpointing make this approach reliable for high-consequence, real-world agent workflows. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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