From 72def6d410f1f91210754403ee741de463e01960 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicholas Blumhardt <nblumhardt@nblumhardt.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:49:40 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Apply exponential back-off to log shipping on non-Exception
 failures, too

---
 src/SeqCli/Ingestion/LogShipper.cs | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/SeqCli/Ingestion/LogShipper.cs b/src/SeqCli/Ingestion/LogShipper.cs
index fbd892b..337e500 100644
--- a/src/SeqCli/Ingestion/LogShipper.cs
+++ b/src/SeqCli/Ingestion/LogShipper.cs
@@ -85,12 +85,13 @@ public static async Task ShipBufferAsync(
             }
             catch (Exception ex)
             {
-                var millisecondsDelay = (int)Math.Min(Math.Pow(2, retries) * 2000, 60000);
-                sendFailureLog.Error(ex, "Failed to send an event batch; retry in {MillisecondsDelay}", millisecondsDelay);
-
-                await Task.Delay(millisecondsDelay, cancellationToken);
-                retries += 1;
+                sendFailureLog.Error(ex, "Failed to ship a batch");
             }
+            
+            var millisecondsDelay = (int)Math.Min(Math.Pow(2, retries) * 2000, 60000);
+            sendFailureLog.Information("Backing off connection schedule; will retry in {MillisecondsDelay}", millisecondsDelay);
+            await Task.Delay(millisecondsDelay, cancellationToken);
+            retries += 1;
         }
     }