From d40777a213f3dce7ec5c533c7cb80189b7de250f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Matsuo <tmatsuo@google.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 14:59:11 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] add randomness to the sleep calls

---
 monitoring/api/v3/alerts-client/snippets_test.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/monitoring/api/v3/alerts-client/snippets_test.py b/monitoring/api/v3/alerts-client/snippets_test.py
index 74e887572c20..766c54654a32 100644
--- a/monitoring/api/v3/alerts-client/snippets_test.py
+++ b/monitoring/api/v3/alerts-client/snippets_test.py
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@
 import snippets
 
 
+# We assume we have access to good randomness source.
+random.seed()
+
+
 def random_name(length):
     return ''.join(
         [random.choice(string.ascii_lowercase) for i in range(length)])
@@ -39,7 +43,8 @@ def retry_if_aborted(exception):
 
 def delay_on_aborted(err, *args):
     if retry_if_aborted(err[1]):
-        time.sleep(2)
+        # add randomness for avoiding continuous conflict
+        time.sleep(2 + (random.randint(0, 9) * 0.1))
         return True
     return False