Pattern to avoid paying monitoring services for errors that will still be retried: define an error wrapper class that inherits from StandardError and stores a reference to the original error; inside the job rescue the original error and re-raise it wrapped. Configure the monitoring SDK to ignore the wrapper class so retries don't flood the service. Implement Sidekiq's sidekiq_retries_exhausted hook to report the final error once no more retries will occur, so only genuinely final failures reach the monitoring service.