Is there a way to disable circuit breaking?

Envoy comes with certain defaults 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.

  1. circuit_breakers:
  2.   thresholds:
  3.     priority: HIGH
  4.     max_connections: 1000000000
  5.     max_pending_requests: 1000000000
  6.     max_requests: 1000000000
  7.     max_retries: 1000000000