# Okta SCIM integration - Retries on failures

**URL:** <https://devforum.okta.com/t/okta-scim-integration-retries-on-failures/34186>\
**Category:** SCIM\
**Created:** [August 28, 2025, 6:44am UTC](https://devforum.okta.com/t/okta-scim-integration-retries-on-failures/34186 "2025-08-28T06:44:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dileep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@Dileep](https://devforum.okta.com/u/Dileep)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 6:44am UTC](https://devforum.okta.com/t/okta-scim-integration-retries-on-failures/34186/1 "2025-08-28T06:44:20Z")

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How does Okta react if a particular SCIM API fails?

Let’s say a user is being added to the Service Provider. It is send as a POST request for the first time. If that API fails on server for whatever reason (say rate limit), does Okta retry that API again? If so, how much time later does it retry?

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**Author:** ![andrea](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/oktadev/user_avatar/devforum.okta.com/andrea/32/2172_2.png) [@andrea](https://devforum.okta.com/u/andrea)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 3:02pm UTC](https://devforum.okta.com/t/okta-scim-integration-retries-on-failures/34186/2 "2025-08-28T15:02:40Z")

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As we can’t know if a retry will succeed when a provisioning task fails, we do not implement any retries for failed tasks. Admins however can manually retry a failed provisioning task on their [Tasks page](https://help.okta.com/oie/en-us/content/topics/dashboard/monitor-your-tasks.htm)

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/oktadev/original/1X/589c4c5f80de422d01f47cee7185a7fb8227835c.png) [@system](https://devforum.okta.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://devforum.okta.com/t/okta-scim-integration-retries-on-failures/34186/3 "2025-09-27T15:03:11Z")

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