Notion Reliability Patterns

Overview

Production-grade reliability patterns for Notion integrations. Covers graceful degradation with offline cache when Notion is unavailable, retry with exponential backoff for transient failures, circuit breaker to prevent cascade failures, health check endpoints for monitoring, and fallback content serving when the API is unreachable. All patterns use Client from @notionhq/client and handle Notion-specific error codes.

Prerequisites

• @notionhq/client v2.x installed (npm install @notionhq/client)
• lru-cache for in-memory caching (npm install lru-cache)
• Python: notion-client installed (pip install notion-client)
• NOTION_TOKEN environment variable set
• Understanding of circuit breaker and retry patterns

Instructions

Step 1: Retry with Exponential Backoff

The Notion SDK has built-in retries, but you can customize the behavior for better control over transient errors (429, 500, 502, 503).