diff --git a/src/config.ts b/src/config.ts
index ce2cdc5..eac226b 100644
--- a/src/config.ts
+++ b/src/config.ts
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ const configSchema = z.object({
         name: z.string(),
         interval: z.number().default(60),
         notifyInterval: z.number().default(300),
-        alertEndpoints: z.array(z.string())
+        alertEndpoints: z.array(z.string()),
+        retries: z.number().int().min(0).default(1)
     }).and(z.union([
         z.object({
             type: z.literal("fetch"),
diff --git a/src/handler.ts b/src/handler.ts
index 8605d86..079af14 100644
--- a/src/handler.ts
+++ b/src/handler.ts
@@ -8,20 +8,28 @@ type EndpointState = State extends Map<any, infer L> ? L : never
 export const handleDown = (endpointState: EndpointState, curTime: number, endpoint: Config["pollEndpoints"][number]) => {
     const prevDown = endpointState.isDown
     endpointState.isDown = true
+
+    endpointState.attemptsFailed++   
+    console.log(`Endpoint ${endpoint.name} has failed ${endpointState.attemptsFailed} times`) 
+    
     if (!prevDown) endpointState.downStart = curTime
 
     if (curTime - endpointState.lastDownAlert < (endpoint.notifyInterval) * 1000) return
-    const message = prevDown ? 
+    
+    if (endpointState.attemptsFailed > endpoint.retries) {
+        const message = prevDown ? 
         `[${formatTS(curTime)}] ${endpoint.name} is still down and initially went down at ${formatTS(endpointState.downStart)}` :
         `[${formatTS(curTime)}] ${endpoint.name} went down`
 
-    notify(message, endpoint)
-    endpointState.lastDownAlert = curTime
+        notify(message, endpoint)
+        endpointState.lastDownAlert = curTime
+    }
 }
 
 export const handleUp = (endpointState: EndpointState, curTime: number, endpoint: Config["pollEndpoints"][number]) => {
     if (endpointState.isDown) {
         endpointState.isDown = false
+        endpointState.attemptsFailed = 0
         const message = `[${formatTS(curTime)}] ${endpoint.name} is back up`
         notify(message, endpoint)
     }
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index 6cacbfb..033e4e2 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -9,13 +9,14 @@ let state = new Map(config.pollEndpoints.map(x => [x.name, {
     lastExec: 0,
     downStart: 0,
     lastDownAlert: 0,
+    attemptsFailed: 0,
     isDown: false
 }]))
 export type State = typeof state
 
 const isEndpointUp = async (endpoint: Config["pollEndpoints"][number]) => {
     if (endpoint.type === "fetch" ) {
-        const r = await fetch(endpoint.url, {method: "GET"})
+        const r = await fetch(endpoint.url, {method: "GET"}).catch(e => ({ok: false}))
         return r.ok
     }
     else if (endpoint.type === "tcp-ping" ) {