Error Handling in Workflows (Incidents, Retries, Compensation in Camunda 8)
Introduction In workflow-driven systems, failures are not exceptions—they are expected . With Camunda 8 Official Documentation error handling is built into the engine using incidents, retries, and BPMN-based compensation patterns . This blog covers: Incident handling in Camunda 8 Retry mechanisms (job-level resilience) Compensation patterns in workflows Production-ready error handling strategies 🧠Understanding Errors in Camunda 8 Types of Errors: Technical Errors → API failure, DB issues Business Errors → Validation failures, rules 👉 Camunda does not automatically handle all errors — you must design handling logic in BPMN. ⚠️ Incidents in Camunda 8 What is an Incident? An incident occurs when a workflow cannot proceed and is stuck at a step. When are Incidents Created? Job retries exhausted Invalid variables Decision evaluation failure Unhandled BPMN error đź”´ Example Flow: Service task calls external API API fails Retries exhausted Incident created → workflow stops ...