asyncbreaker

asyncbreaker is an asyncio-first Python implementation of the Circuit Breaker pattern from Michael T. Nygard's book Release It!.

Circuit breakers let one subsystem fail without taking down the whole application: you wrap risky calls (often I/O or integration boundaries) so that repeated failures trip the breaker, subsequent calls fail fast for a reset timeout, then a single trial call may close the circuit again.

Lineage

  • pybreaker (Daniel Fernandes Martins) — original design.
  • aiobreaker fork (Alexander Lyon) — asyncio instead of Tornado, packaging experiments.
  • Current line — maintained by Sergey Turbinov; substantial rewrite toward a pure async API, async storage, and async listeners. Contact: @freems on Telegram.

Features

  • Async CircuitBreaker — use await breaker.call(...)
  • Configurable failure threshold (fail_max) and reset window (timeout_duration)
  • Excluded exceptions and predicate callables (business vs system errors)
  • Multiple async Listener instances
  • Pluggable async storage: in-process memory or Redis via redis.asyncio
  • Optional redis extra for Redis-backed storage

Requirements

Python 3.10+ (async patterns and typing used throughout).

Installation

pip install asyncbreaker

With Redis support (redis package):

pip install asyncbreaker[redis]

Usage

Create a breaker per integration point. Only async callables are supported; the decorator rejects ordinary def functions.

from datetime import timedelta

from asyncbreaker import CircuitBreaker

api_breaker = CircuitBreaker(fail_max=5, timeout_duration=timedelta(seconds=60))

@api_breaker
async def fetch_remote():
    ...

# or explicitly:
await api_breaker.call(fetch_remote)

See changelog.md for the full API story (listeners, storage, open / close / half_open, exclusion rules). A MkDocs site will be added later.

Development

This project uses uv:

uv sync
uv run pytest test

License

BSD 3-Clause; see license.md. This project bundles copyright from the pybreaker lineage; additional copyright applies to the asyncio rewrite (see license.md).

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Author: Sergey Turbinov

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Python >=3.10

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