diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/identity/azure_ad.py b/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/identity/azure_ad.py
index 20b313474d174b..885b6514779cc4 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/identity/azure_ad.py
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/identity/azure_ad.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 import click
 import requests
 from pydantic.fields import Field
+from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter, Retry
 
 from datahub.configuration.common import AllowDenyPattern
 from datahub.configuration.source_common import DatasetSourceConfigMixin
@@ -268,6 +269,14 @@ def __init__(self, config: AzureADConfig, ctx: PipelineContext):
         self.report = AzureADSourceReport(
             filtered_tracking=self.config.filtered_tracking
         )
+        session = requests.Session()
+        retries = Retry(
+            total=5, backoff_factor=1, status_forcelist=[429, 500, 502, 503, 504]
+        )
+        adapter = HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retries)
+        session.mount("http://", adapter)
+        session.mount("https://", adapter)
+        self.session = session
         self.token_data = {
             "grant_type": "client_credentials",
             "client_id": self.config.client_id,
@@ -494,7 +503,7 @@ def _get_azure_ad_data(self, kind: str) -> Iterable[List]:
         while True:
             if not url:
                 break
-            response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
+            response = self.session.get(url, headers=headers)
             if response.status_code == 200:
                 json_data = json.loads(response.text)
                 try:
@@ -512,7 +521,7 @@ def _get_azure_ad_data(self, kind: str) -> Iterable[List]:
                 logger.debug(f"URL = {url}")
                 logger.error(error_str)
                 self.report.report_failure("_get_azure_ad_data_", error_str)
-                continue
+                raise Exception(f"Unable to get {url}, error {response.status_code}")
 
     def _map_identity_to_urn(self, func, id_to_extract, mapping_identifier, id_type):
         result, error_str = None, None