brought the timeout changes too

backend/danswer/connectors/confluence/connector.py

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 from typing import Any
 from urllib.parse import quote
 
+from atlassian import Confluence  # type: ignore
+
 from danswer.configs.app_configs import CONFLUENCE_CONNECTOR_LABELS_TO_SKIP
 from danswer.configs.app_configs import CONTINUE_ON_CONNECTOR_FAILURE
 from danswer.configs.app_configs import INDEX_BATCH_SIZE
@@ -116,6 +118,21 @@ def load_credentials(self, credentials: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any] | None
             is_cloud=self.is_cloud,
             wiki_base=self.wiki_base,
         )
+
+        client_without_retries = Confluence(
+            api_version="cloud" if self.is_cloud else "latest",
+            url=self.wiki_base.rstrip("/"),
+            username=credentials["confluence_username"] if self.is_cloud else None,
+            password=credentials["confluence_access_token"] if self.is_cloud else None,
+            token=credentials["confluence_access_token"] if not self.is_cloud else None,
+        )
+        spaces = client_without_retries.get_all_spaces(limit=1)
+        if not spaces:
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"No spaces found at {self.wiki_base}! "
+                "Check your credentials and wiki_base and make sure "
+                "is_cloud is set correctly."
+            )
         return None
 
     def _get_comment_string_for_page_id(self, page_id: str) -> str:

backend/danswer/connectors/confluence/onyx_confluence.py

@@ -84,21 +84,24 @@ def handle_confluence_rate_limit(confluence_call: F) -> F:
     def wrapped_call(*args: list[Any], **kwargs: Any) -> Any:
         MAX_RETRIES = 5
 
-        TIMEOUT = 3600
+        TIMEOUT = 600
         timeout_at = time.monotonic() + TIMEOUT
 
         for attempt in range(MAX_RETRIES):
             if time.monotonic() > timeout_at:
                 raise TimeoutError(
                     f"Confluence call attempts took longer than {TIMEOUT} seconds."
                 )
-
             try:
                 # we're relying more on the client to rate limit itself
                 # and applying our own retries in a more specific set of circumstances
                 return confluence_call(*args, **kwargs)
             except HTTPError as e:
                 delay_until = _handle_http_error(e, attempt)
+                logger.warning(
+                    f"HTTPError in confluence call. "
+                    f"Retrying in {delay_until} seconds..."
+                )
                 while time.monotonic() < delay_until:
                     # in the future, check a signal here to exit
                     time.sleep(1)
@@ -107,7 +110,6 @@ def wrapped_call(*args: list[Any], **kwargs: Any) -> Any:
                 # Users reported it to be intermittent, so just retry
                 if attempt == MAX_RETRIES - 1:
                     raise e
-
                 logger.exception(
                     "Confluence Client raised an AttributeError. Retrying..."
                 )

backend/danswer/connectors/confluence/utils.py

@@ -283,6 +283,6 @@ def build_confluence_client(
         password=credentials_json["confluence_access_token"] if is_cloud else None,
         token=credentials_json["confluence_access_token"] if not is_cloud else None,
         backoff_and_retry=True,
-        max_backoff_retries=60,
+        max_backoff_retries=10,
         max_backoff_seconds=60,
     )

backend/ee/danswer/external_permissions/confluence/group_sync.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+from atlassian import Confluence  # type: ignore
 from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
 
 from danswer.connectors.confluence.onyx_confluence import OnyxConfluence
@@ -37,11 +38,26 @@ def confluence_group_sync(
     db_session: Session,
     cc_pair: ConnectorCredentialPair,
 ) -> None:
+    credentials = cc_pair.credential.credential_json
     is_cloud = cc_pair.connector.connector_specific_config.get("is_cloud", False)
+    wiki_base = cc_pair.connector.connector_specific_config["wiki_base"]
+
+    # test connection with direct client, no retries
+    confluence_client = Confluence(
+        api_version="cloud" if is_cloud else "latest",
+        url=wiki_base.rstrip("/"),
+        username=credentials["confluence_username"] if is_cloud else None,
+        password=credentials["confluence_access_token"] if is_cloud else None,
+        token=credentials["confluence_access_token"] if not is_cloud else None,
+    )
+    spaces = confluence_client.get_all_spaces(limit=1)
+    if not spaces:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"No spaces found at {wiki_base}!")
+
     confluence_client = build_confluence_client(
-        credentials_json=cc_pair.credential.credential_json,
+        credentials_json=credentials,
         is_cloud=is_cloud,
-        wiki_base=cc_pair.connector.connector_specific_config["wiki_base"],
+        wiki_base=wiki_base,
     )
 
     # Get all group names