--- title: Resilient .NET Application with Polly Resilience Pipelines description: A walkthrough of building resilient .NET applications using Polly-based resilience pipelines, explaining reactive strategies (retry, circuit-breaker, fallback,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/resilient-net-application-with-polly-resilience-pipelines-9j3ltzszf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Resilient .NET Application with Polly Resilience Pipelines | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of building resilient .NET applications using Polly-based resilience pipelines, explaining reactive strategies (retry, circuit-breaker, fallback,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/resilient-net-application-with-polly-resilience-pipelines-9j3ltzszf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9j3LtzSZf.png og:image:alt: Resilient .NET Application with Polly Resilience Pipelines 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. # Resilient .NET Application with Polly Resilience Pipelines **[NikolaTech](https://daily.dev/sources/nikolatech)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of building resilient .NET applications using Polly-based resilience pipelines, explaining reactive strategies (retry, circuit-breaker, fallback, hedging) and proactive strategies (timeout, rate limiter). Shows how to use Microsoft.Extensions.Resilience and Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Resilience packages, build and register resilience pipelines with dependency injection, and add resilience handlers like AddStandardResilienceHandler and AddStandardHedgingHandler to HttpClient configurations, with code examples throughout. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I add resilience to an HttpClient in .NET using Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Resilience? Chain AddStandardResilienceHandler or AddStandardHedgingHandler onto AddHttpClient when registering the client in dependency injection. These predefined handlers implement five resilience strategies following industry best practices, covering retry, circuit-breaker, timeout, and related behaviors without manually building a Polly pipeline. _daily.dev surfaces practical resilience patterns for developers hardening .NET services against transient failures._ ### What is the difference between reactive and proactive resilience strategies in Polly? Reactive strategies (retry, circuit-breaker, fallback, hedging) respond to exceptions or failed results after they occur, while proactive strategies (timeout, rate limiter) prevent errors by canceling or rejecting executions before failure happens. Retry re-attempts failed operations, circuit-breaker stops calls to overloaded systems, fallback substitutes a default response, and hedging races multiple attempts for the fastest result. _Developers choosing between resilience strategies can track patterns like these via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [HttpClient Resilience in .NET 10: Timeout, Retry, and Circuit Breaker with Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Resilience](https://daily.dev/posts/httpclient-resilience-in-net-10-timeout-retry-and-circuit-breaker-with-microsoft-extensions-http-aszonhwdy) · We Are .NET · 5 upvotes · 0 comments - [Building Resilient APIs with the Retry Pattern](https://daily.dev/posts/building-resilient-apis-with-the-retry-pattern-nml75zabn) · Telerik · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Microsoft.Data.SqlClient Retry Logic: Building Resilient .NET SQL Server Applications](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-data-sqlclient-retry-logic-building-resilient-net-sql-server-applications-juctob1p1) · C\# Corner · 2 upvotes · 1 comments - [The Architecture of Resilience: From Robust Code to a Balanced Life](https://daily.dev/posts/the-architecture-of-resilience-from-robust-code-to-a-balanced-life-9ilvotcrl) · We Are .NET · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#.net](https://daily.dev/tags/.net), [#c#](https://daily.dev/tags/c#) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/resilient-net-application-with-polly-resilience-pipelines-9j3ltzszf) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Resilient .NET Application with Polly Resilience Pipelines","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/resilient-net-application-with-polly-resilience-pipelines-9j3ltzszf","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/resilient-net-application-with-polly-resilience-pipelines-9j3ltzszf"},"datePublished":"2026-10-04T13:05:58.379Z","dateModified":"2026-10-04T13:13:17.490Z","description":"A walkthrough of building resilient .NET applications using Polly-based resilience pipelines, explaining reactive strategies (retry, circuit-breaker, fallback,...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3fcbda737a84416b068ca95656790a2a?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3fcbda737a84416b068ca95656790a2a?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"NikolaTech","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"NikolaTech","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--1h2fO6FL--/f_auto,q_auto/v1791119050/logos/nikolatech?_a=BAMAMicg0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/nikolatech"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/resilient-net-application-with-polly-resilience-pipelines-9j3ltzszf","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":".net,c#","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"NikolaTech","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/nikolatech"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Resilient .NET Application with Polly Resilience Pipelines"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/resilient-net-application-with-polly-resilience-pipelines-9j3ltzszf#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"How do I add resilience to an HttpClient in .NET using Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Resilience?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Chain AddStandardResilienceHandler or AddStandardHedgingHandler onto AddHttpClient when registering the client in dependency injection. 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