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Simulate a retry storm

Your scraper keeps retrying the same expensive SerpAPI / Apify / proxy task. This page is a toy counter so you can feel the shape of loop policy: here, requests 1–5 are “safe”, 6–10 are “gray”, and 11+ are “blocked”. Production gray-zone behavior can include extra signals (see note below); the storm hard-stop still maps to the same idea: stop before the next vendor bill.

Simulated incident — not your traffic. No customer traffic, no billing data, and no network calls unless you separately try the live demos on Use cases.

Verified against worker/src/routes/check.ts public demo: max_count: 10, cost_usd: 0.05 per loop observation; gray zone uses Workers AI when enabled (this page does not call the API).

Controls 0 requests

Tap “Same expensive task again” to mimic a stuck retry loop on one task_key before the paid HTTP call.

1–5 allow   6–10 gray / flagged   11+ block (429)

Incident type: Same task_key retry storm (simulated)

Current decision: allow

Estimated savings (demo unit cost)
Safe passes
0
Gray / flagged
0
Blocked
0
Est. paid calls prevented
0
Est. quota / cost saved (at $0.05 / would-be call, illustrative): $0.00
Event log
— Ready. Each click = one gate check for the same simulated task.\n
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