How to bypass the cache if provider server is down and cache throws exception?

[tafs7]

Is there a way to bypass the cache when the underlying cache provider is down? For example, using a remote Redis cache, if the server is not available, a call to the cache will throw an exception, which will bubble up to the caller of the DB code.

Is there a hook or a customization that we can put in place that bypasses the cache altogether on exception, so that caller doesn't have to know there was a transient error, but we can still log the exception for ops monitoring?
thanks!

[moozzyk]

I guess the question is where it is supposed to be implemented/configured. Should EFCache always catch exceptions from cache provider and do the full read or is it on the provider to handle this kind of situations.

[tony-asu]

How would you feel about setting for The number of seconds to wait after an exception before trying the cache again?

[moozzyk]

At this point I am not planning on implementing any changes in this library except for fixing security issues.