Does a single out-of-retries failing operation open a CircuitBreaker no matter how many successful operations are being simultaneously executed?

[alsoba13]

Let's suppose I have a 3rd party @Client protected with @CircuitBreaker(attemps="3", reset="20s") that handles hundreds of successful requests per second.

But for some reason, a single malformed request is sent to the client. That request will result in a 4xx/5xx error code. As the error is due to malformed input, any retry will fail too. When it run out of retries, the circuit becomes open.

All those hundreds of successful requests will be rejected during 20s, resulting in thousands of errors.

This is what I've observed from using @CircuitBreaker. Am I using it wrong? Is it expected that a single failing request (with failing retries) opens a healthy circuit?