> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://getconvoy.io/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Dead Endpoints

> Endpoints that consecutively fail to acknowledge events.

A dead endpoint is an endpoint that failed consecutively to acknowledge events. Currently, we define consecutive failure as at least one event having maxed out its retry limit to the maximum configured. In the future, we plan to support different consecutive-failure strategies.

See also [Endpoints](/glossary/endpoints) and [Retry schedule](/glossary/retry-schedule).

<Frame caption="An endpoint becomes dead after exhausting its retry limit">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/convoy/_WONT-xWtAta0Rq9/images/glossary/dead-endpoints.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=_WONT-xWtAta0Rq9&q=85&s=15edac9d4b51b0d86976c065facf0469" alt="How an endpoint becomes a dead endpoint" width="1024" height="968" data-path="images/glossary/dead-endpoints.png" />
</Frame>