---
title: "How to implement a Fallback strategy in Polly for graceful service degradation?"  
description: "How to implement a Fallback strategy in Polly for graceful service degradation?"  
author: "Austin Luthar"  
published: 2026-08-14  
updated: 2026-08-14  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/117063/how-to-implement-a-fallback-strategy-in-polly-for-graceful-service-degradation  
category: "Polly"  
tags: ["csharp", "dotnet", "polly", "fallback", "fault-tolerance"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How to implement a Fallback strategy in Polly for graceful service degradation?

A Fallback strategy allows your system to handle errors gracefully by providing default data, cached content, or alternative behavior when an operation fails.

## Configuring Fallback in Polly v8

Fallback policies capture exceptions or specific result conditions and return a substitute response.

### Code Example

```cs
var pipeline = new ResiliencePipelineBuilder<string>()
    .AddFallback(new FallbackStrategyOptions<string>
    {
        ShouldHandle = new PredicateBuilder<string>().Handle<HttpRequestException>(),
        FallbackAction = args =>
        {
            // Return default fallback value
            return Outcome.FromResultAsValueTask("Default fallback content");
        }
    })
    .Build();

string content = await pipeline.ExecuteAsync(async ct =>
{
    return await FetchOnlineContentAsync(ct);
});
```


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