Superseded in navigation

This page is not linked from the sidebar in Docs 2.0. For the full routing story (including fallback behavior), read Routing engine. For request normalization, see Parameter sanitization.

The safety net

The safety net is an optional fallback path: when your primary route or upstream provider fails (timeouts, rate limits, hard errors), Rikaii can retry or route to an alternate model or provider according to your rules.

Enabling fallback

Configure fallback per provider or route in the Dashboard. When fallback uses Rikaii-managed capacity, usage may be metered to your account even if your primary hop was BYOK.

Operational guidance

• Define primary and fallback models that are acceptable for your latency and compliance profile.
• Monitor failure rates in your dashboard to tune timeouts and fallback ordering.

See BYOK integration and Rate limits.