diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index ab83a15..25e0bbd 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1060,6 +1060,17 @@ files = [
 marshmallow = ">=3.18.0,<4.0.0"
 typing-inspect = ">=0.4.0,<1"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "decorator"
+version = "5.1.1"
+description = "Decorators for Humans"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.5"
+files = [
+    {file = "decorator-5.1.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:b8c3f85900b9dc423225913c5aace94729fe1fa9763b38939a95226f02d37186"},
+    {file = "decorator-5.1.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:637996211036b6385ef91435e4fae22989472f9d571faba8927ba8253acbc330"},
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "deprecated"
 version = "1.2.14"
@@ -5015,6 +5026,20 @@ requests = ">=2.0.0"
 [package.extras]
 rsa = ["oauthlib[signedtoken] (>=3.0.0)"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "retry-async"
+version = "0.1.4"
+description = ""
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.10,<4.0"
+files = [
+    {file = "retry_async-0.1.4-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:21b383c7bc52013478337b894f476c9f106485cfeeb5d449abe5f745be2da219"},
+    {file = "retry_async-0.1.4.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:8414d69b20920a1d700de34b68c0f972fa36a0158450a6f6abc5b45a241ac6b6"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+decorator = ">=5.1.1,<6.0.0"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rich"
 version = "13.7.1"
@@ -6737,4 +6762,4 @@ vector-stores-qdrant = ["llama-index-vector-stores-qdrant"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.11,<3.12"
-content-hash = "119ebc4623e38c745677ca78dee1133087cce3b04ac210bc7a774e6c5cce26c6"
+content-hash = "3fa6ef447847895b1a16b8b0422dd9e4fda1aaaadef3af71971eb412da89bf67"
diff --git a/private_gpt/utils/ollama.py b/private_gpt/utils/ollama.py
index 9c75a87..da9107b 100644
--- a/private_gpt/utils/ollama.py
+++ b/private_gpt/utils/ollama.py
@@ -3,10 +3,13 @@ from collections import deque
 from collections.abc import Iterator, Mapping
 from typing import Any
 
+from httpx import ConnectError
 from tqdm import tqdm  # type: ignore
 
+from private_gpt.utils.retry import retry
+
 try:
-    from ollama import Client  # type: ignore
+    from ollama import Client, ResponseError  # type: ignore
 except ImportError as e:
     raise ImportError(
         "Ollama dependencies not found, install with `poetry install --extras llms-ollama or embeddings-ollama`"
@@ -14,13 +17,25 @@ except ImportError as e:
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
+_MAX_RETRIES = 5
+_JITTER = (3.0, 10.0)
 
+
+@retry(
+    is_async=False,
+    exceptions=(ConnectError, ResponseError),
+    tries=_MAX_RETRIES,
+    jitter=_JITTER,
+    logger=logger,
+)
 def check_connection(client: Client) -> bool:
     try:
         client.list()
         return True
+    except (ConnectError, ResponseError) as e:
+        raise e
     except Exception as e:
-        logger.error(f"Failed to connect to Ollama: {e!s}")
+        logger.error(f"Failed to connect to Ollama: {type(e).__name__}: {e!s}")
         return False
 
 
diff --git a/private_gpt/utils/retry.py b/private_gpt/utils/retry.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..614b680
--- /dev/null
+++ b/private_gpt/utils/retry.py
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import logging
+from collections.abc import Callable
+from typing import Any
+
+from retry_async import retry as retry_untyped  # type: ignore
+
+retry_logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def retry(
+    exceptions: Any = Exception,
+    *,
+    is_async: bool = False,
+    tries: int = -1,
+    delay: float = 0,
+    max_delay: float | None = None,
+    backoff: float = 1,
+    jitter: float | tuple[float, float] = 0,
+    logger: logging.Logger = retry_logger,
+) -> Callable[..., Any]:
+    wrapped = retry_untyped(
+        exceptions=exceptions,
+        is_async=is_async,
+        tries=tries,
+        delay=delay,
+        max_delay=max_delay,
+        backoff=backoff,
+        jitter=jitter,
+        logger=logger,
+    )
+    return wrapped  # type: ignore
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 733690e..afbb83c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ ollama = {version ="^0.3.0", optional = true}
 
 # Optional HF Transformers
 einops = {version = "^0.8.0", optional = true}
+retry-async = "^0.1.4"
 
 [tool.poetry.extras]
 ui = ["gradio", "ffmpy"]