---
type: docs
title: "Resiliency policies"
linkTitle: "Policies"
weight: 200
description: "Configure resiliency policies for timeouts, retries, and circuit breakers"
---

Define timeouts, retries, and circuit breaker policies under `policies`. Each policy is given a name so you can refer to them from the [`targets` section in the resiliency spec]({{< ref targets.md >}}).