Use `requestretry` node package

services/web/app/coffee/Features/Analytics/AnalyticsManager.coffee

@@ -1,29 +1,15 @@
 settings = require "settings-sharelatex"
 logger = require "logger-sharelatex"
 _ = require "underscore"
-request = require "request"
+request = require "requestretry"
 Errors = require '../Errors/Errors'
 
 
 makeRequest = (opts, callback)->
-	retryTimings = [1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 32, 32]
 	if settings.apis?.analytics?.url?
 		urlPath = opts.url
 		opts.url = "#{settings.apis.analytics.url}#{urlPath}"
-		iteration = 0
-		_go = () ->
-			request opts, (err, response, data) ->
-				if err?
-					if iteration == retryTimings.length or !opts.retryOnFail
-						logger.err {err, url: opts.url},
-							"Error in analytics request, retries failed"
-						return callback(err)
-					backoffSeconds = retryTimings[iteration]
-					iteration += 1
-					setTimeout(_go, backoffSeconds * 1000)
-				else
-					callback(null, response, data)
-		_go()
+		request opts, callback
 	else
 		callback(new Errors.ServiceNotConfiguredError('Analytics service not configured'))
 
@@ -51,7 +37,8 @@ module.exports =
 			method:"POST"
 			timeout:1000
 			url: "/user/#{user_id}/event"
-			retryOnFail: true
+			maxAttempts: 20
+			retryDelay: 5000
 		if settings.overleaf?
 			opts.qs = {fromV2: 1}
 		makeRequest opts, callback
@@ -69,7 +56,8 @@ module.exports =
 			qs:
 				userId: userId
 				projectId: projectId
-			retryOnFail: true
+			maxAttempts: 20
+			retryDelay: 5000
 		if settings.overleaf?
 			opts.qs.fromV2 = 1
 		makeRequest opts, callback

services/web/npm-shrinkwrap.json

@@ -6926,6 +6926,11 @@
       "from": "request@>=2.69.0 <3.0.0",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/request/-/request-2.83.0.tgz"
     },
+    "requestretry": {
+      "version": "1.13.0",
+      "from": "requestretry@latest",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/requestretry/-/requestretry-1.13.0.tgz"
+    },
     "requests": {
       "version": "0.1.7",
       "from": "requests@>=0.1.7 <0.2.0",
@@ -9309,6 +9314,11 @@
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/websocket-extensions/-/websocket-extensions-0.1.3.tgz",
       "dev": true
     },
+    "when": {
+      "version": "3.7.8",
+      "from": "when@>=3.7.7 <4.0.0",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/when/-/when-3.7.8.tgz"
+    },
     "which": {
       "version": "1.0.9",
       "from": "which@>=1.0.5 <1.1.0",

services/web/package.json

@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
     "pug": "^2.0.0-beta6",
     "redis-sharelatex": "git+https://github.com/sharelatex/redis-sharelatex.git#v1.0.4",
     "request": "^2.69.0",
+    "requestretry": "^1.13.0",
     "requests": "^0.1.7",
     "rimraf": "2.2.6",
     "rolling-rate-limiter": "git+https://github.com/ShaneKilkelly/rolling-rate-limiter.git#master",