.. _faq_disable_circuit_breaking:

Is there a way to disable circuit breaking?

Envoy comes with :ref:certain defaults <envoy_v3_api_msg_config.cluster.v3.CircuitBreakers.Thresholds> for each kind of circuit breaking. Currently, there isn't a switch to turn circuit breaking off completely; however, you could achieve a similar behavior by setting these thresholds very high, for example, to std::numeric_limits<uint32_t>::max().

Following is a sample configuration that tries to effectively disable all kinds of circuit breaking by setting the thresholds to a value of 1000000000.

.. code-block:: yaml

circuit_breakers: thresholds: - priority: DEFAULT max_connections: 1000000000 max_pending_requests: 1000000000 max_requests: 1000000000 max_retries: 1000000000 - priority: HIGH max_connections: 1000000000 max_pending_requests: 1000000000 max_requests: 1000000000 max_retries: 1000000000

Envoy supports priority routing at the route level. You may adjust the thresholds accordingly.