From 22bdc4d1abf45eeaffb6e4261230b28696655eef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Griesser <daniel.griesser.86@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 15:59:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ref: Add max tries to Spotlight (#2571)

Co-authored-by: Anton Pirker <anton.pirker@sentry.io>
---
 sentry_sdk/spotlight.py | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sentry_sdk/spotlight.py b/sentry_sdk/spotlight.py
index 9b686bfc89..3d02ee74f0 100644
--- a/sentry_sdk/spotlight.py
+++ b/sentry_sdk/spotlight.py
@@ -17,9 +17,15 @@ def __init__(self, url):
         # type: (str) -> None
         self.url = url
         self.http = urllib3.PoolManager()
+        self.tries = 0
 
     def capture_envelope(self, envelope):
         # type: (Envelope) -> None
+        if self.tries > 3:
+            logger.warning(
+                "Too many errors sending to Spotlight, stop sending events there."
+            )
+            return
         body = io.BytesIO()
         envelope.serialize_into(body)
         try:
@@ -33,7 +39,8 @@ def capture_envelope(self, envelope):
             )
             req.close()
         except Exception as e:
-            logger.exception(str(e))
+            self.tries += 1
+            logger.warning(str(e))
 
 
 def setup_spotlight(options):