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Retry logic for OpenAI timeouts

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Mar 14, 20260 views

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Problem

I'm seeing the following error in prod: [code block] It's getting captured in my catch block, so I'm fairly sure the retries aren't happening, unless the first attempt is the one that gets re-thrown or something confusing like that. Is it possible this doesn't meet the criteria for retryable? Could this be addressed using the FailedAttemptHandler interface? I've not set a timeout for the LLM. I'm having a hard time figuring out the default value. [code block]

Error Output

Error [TimeoutError]: Request timed out.

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Solution: Retry logic for OpenAI timeouts

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I just found out that retries are not happening at all, despite setting maxRetries to a valid value in the langchain ChatOpenAI object. This sort of bug remaining unsolved for so long makes me doubt whether anyone uses langchainjs at all. Can the maintainers fix this?

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I just found out that retries are not happening at all, despite setting maxRetri
I just found out that retries are not happening at all, despite setting maxRetries to a valid value in the langchain ChatOpenAI object.
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This sort of bug remaining unsolved for so long makes me doubt whether anyone us
This sort of bug remaining unsolved for so long makes me doubt whether anyone uses langchainjs at all.

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Resolved in langchain-ai/langchainjs GitHub issue #2706. Community reactions: 5 upvotes.

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Last verified Mar 14, 2026

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Alex Chen

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