# Circuit breaker in GRPC service mesh

**URL:** <https://linkerd.buoyant.io/t/circuit-breaker-in-grpc-service-mesh/596>\
**Category:** Linkerd General Discussion\
**Created:** [September 9, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/t/circuit-breaker-in-grpc-service-mesh/596 "2024-09-09T23:13:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![jolville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@jolville](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/u/jolville)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/t/circuit-breaker-in-grpc-service-mesh/596/1 "2024-09-09T23:13:52Z")

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Hi, we are looking to introduce circuit breaking to our gRPC based cluster and saw that linkerd supports it. We’d like to add this behaviour in our service mesh since it seems like the appropriate place, but from what I can see in the docs it looks to only be available for http 5yz codes. Is that correct? And if so, is there any plans to add support for gRPC codes? Apologies if this is the wrong forum to ask in.

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**Author:** ![william](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/linkerd.buoyant.io/william/32/5_2.png) [@william](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/u/william)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 9:54pm UTC](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/t/circuit-breaker-in-grpc-service-mesh/596/2 "2024-10-03T21:54:57Z")

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@jolville Apologies in turn for the delay in replying! You are correct that circuit breaking is only HTTP right now. We do plan to extend this to gRPC at some point but we don’t have a definitive time for when that will happen just yet.