# Circuit breaker question

**URL:** <https://linkerd.buoyant.io/t/circuit-breaker-question/396>\
**Category:** Linkerd General Discussion\
**Tags:** configuration\
**Created:** [February 26, 2024, 6:21am UTC](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/t/circuit-breaker-question/396 "2024-02-26T06:21:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![jgardner16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@jgardner16](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/u/jgardner16)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2024, 6:21am UTC](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/t/circuit-breaker-question/396/1 "2024-02-26T06:21:35Z")

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This is a silly example but if I call a service external to my company like [https://google.com](https://google.com) can I set up circuit breaker for that call? My meshed service has to call an external service and would like to add curcuit breaker to the call in case their service has problems.

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**Author:** ![jgardner16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@jgardner16](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/u/jgardner16)\
**Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 3:38am UTC](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/t/circuit-breaker-question/396/2 "2024-02-29T03:38:58Z")

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is it not possible do I need to use Hystrix or something?

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**Author:** ![alpeb](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/linkerd.buoyant.io/alpeb/32/61_2.png) [@alpeb](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/u/alpeb)\
**Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 7:13pm UTC](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/t/circuit-breaker-question/396/3 "2024-02-29T19:13:42Z")

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Linkerd’s circuit breaking is performed among the different possible Endpoints for a given Service. So that’s mainly thought for inner-cluster traffic, but maybe you can have this work for external services, by declaring a Service without selectors, and manually adding its EndpointSlices pointing to the differents possible backends…

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**Author:** ![jgardner16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@jgardner16](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/u/jgardner16)\
**Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/t/circuit-breaker-question/396/4 "2024-02-29T21:36:46Z")

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ok thank you that’s what it sounded like reading the docs just wanted to make sure.

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**Author:** ![jackherminia](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/linkerd.buoyant.io/jackherminia/32/154_2.png) [@jackherminia](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/u/jackherminia)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 7:27am UTC](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/t/circuit-breaker-question/396/5 "2024-03-16T07:27:39Z")

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Hey @alpeb Thank you !