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title: "How to combine multiple resilience strategies into a pipeline in Polly v8?"  
description: "How to combine multiple resilience strategies into a pipeline in Polly v8?"  
author: "Austin Luthar"  
published: 2026-08-17  
updated: 2026-08-17  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/117065/how-to-combine-multiple-resilience-strategies-into-a-pipeline-in-polly-v8  
category: "Polly"  
tags: ["csharp", "dotnet", "polly", "design-patterns", "resilience"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How to combine multiple resilience strategies into a pipeline in Polly v8?

In real-world production scenarios, combining multiple resilience strategies—such as Retry, Circuit Breaker, and Timeout—into a single pipeline offers comprehensive fault tolerance.

## Ordering Resilience Strategies

Order matters when chaining strategies in a pipeline. The outer strategies wrap the inner strategies.

### Recommended Ordering Pattern

- **Outer:** Fallback
- **Middle:** Retry
- **Inner:** Circuit Breaker
- **Innermost:** Timeout

### Code Example

```
var pipeline = new ResiliencePipelineBuilder()
    .AddFallback(new FallbackStrategyOptions
    {
        ShouldHandle = new PredicateBuilder().Handle<Exception>(),
        FallbackAction = args => Outcome.FromResultAsValueTask("Cached Result")
    })
    .AddRetry(new RetryStrategyOptions
    {
        MaxRetryAttempts = 2,
        Delay = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(500)
    })
    .AddTimeout(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2))
    .Build();

var result = await pipeline.ExecuteAsync(async ct =>
    await FetchDataFromServiceAsync(ct));
```


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