What happens in the OPEN state of a circuit breaker?
Practice this question from Quiz: Handling Downstream Latency with Circuit Breaker, with options and an explanation.
Question
What happens in the OPEN state of a circuit breaker?
Option A — Correct answer
Calls are blocked and fallback is returned immediately
Option B
All calls are sent twice
Option C
The database is migrated
Option D
Timeouts are disabled
Explanation
OPEN protects the caller and downstream from more load.