Queue standard logic app failures and retry later

Question

We have azure standard logic app with Stateful workflows. We need to queue the failed workflows and retry later in 3 hours. How can we queue failed data from stateful workflows and retry later ? Or Does stateful workflows already queue data , which can be used later ?

Answer 1

Apologies for the delayed response @MS Techie.

When your stateful workflow fails on execution, the state should be persisted from the point of failure. And you can configure your retry policy with interval set to PT3H for it to retry at your 3-hour interval.

If you're not getting this experience or running into issues, please comment down below describing any errors you're receiving.

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EDIT 15 Mar 2024

There's a 'peak-lock' pattern that you can look into. Where you read message off the queue and if the processing was successful, "complete" the message to delete it from the queue. If it's a failure, you abandon the message to it goes back to the queue for reprocessing. Reliably processing messages from Service Bus with Logic Apps | Your Azure Coach is a good blog post explaining this pattern.

However, yes, you can build another workflow that involves reading from a "retry queue" and executes on your scheduled three hours. Basically, building your own retry-policy I linked above. Check out Azure Service Bus message sequencing and timestamps - Azure Service Bus | Microsoft Learn for more info.