diff --git a/ui/src/Common/Fetch.js b/ui/src/Common/Fetch.js
index fb09d84c1..625016fce 100644
--- a/ui/src/Common/Fetch.js
+++ b/ui/src/Common/Fetch.js
@@ -8,17 +8,29 @@ const CommonOptions = {
 };
 
 const FetchRetryConfig = {
-  retries: 5,
-  minTimeout: 1000,
+  retries: 10,
+  minTimeout: 2000,
   maxTimeout: 5000
 };
 
 const FetchGet = async (uri, options, retryOptions) =>
   await promiseRetry(
     (retry, number) =>
-      fetch(uri, merge({}, { method: "GET" }, CommonOptions, options)).catch(
-        retry
-      ),
+      fetch(
+        uri,
+        merge(
+          {},
+          {
+            method: "GET",
+            mode:
+              number <= Math.round(FetchRetryConfig.retries * 0.8)
+                ? "cors"
+                : "no-cors"
+          },
+          CommonOptions,
+          options
+        )
+      ).catch(retry),
     FetchRetryConfig
   );
 
diff --git a/ui/src/Common/Fetch.test.js b/ui/src/Common/Fetch.test.js
index d31126888..0d777b6d6 100644
--- a/ui/src/Common/Fetch.test.js
+++ b/ui/src/Common/Fetch.test.js
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ describe("Fetch", () => {
   };
 
   const methodOptions = {
-    FetchGet: { method: "GET" },
+    FetchGet: { method: "GET", mode: "cors" },
     FetchPost: { method: "POST" },
     FetchDelete: { method: "DELETE" }
   };
@@ -59,4 +59,24 @@ describe("Fetch", () => {
       );
     });
   }
+
+  it("FetchGet switches to no-cors after 80% failures", async () => {
+    fetch.mockReject(new Error("Fetch error"));
+
+    const request = FetchGet("http://example.com", {});
+    await expect(request).rejects.toThrow("Fetch error");
+
+    expect(fetch).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(11);
+    expect(fetch).toHaveBeenCalledWith("http://example.com", {
+      method: "GET",
+      credentials: "include",
+      mode: "no-cors",
+      redirect: "follow"
+    });
+    for (let i = 0; i <= 10; i++) {
+      expect(fetch.mock.calls[i][1]).toMatchObject({
+        mode: i < 8 ? "cors" : "no-cors"
+      });
+    }
+  });
 });
diff --git a/ui/src/Stores/AlertStore.js b/ui/src/Stores/AlertStore.js
index 8b57f8520..29d0eed10 100644
--- a/ui/src/Stores/AlertStore.js
+++ b/ui/src/Stores/AlertStore.js
@@ -174,9 +174,15 @@ class AlertStore {
     {
       totalAlerts: 0,
       version: "unknown",
-      upgradeNeeded: false
+      upgradeNeeded: false,
+      reloadNeeded: false,
+      setReloadNeeded() {
+        this.reloadNeeded = true;
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      setReloadNeeded: action
     },
-    {},
     { name: "API response info" }
   );
 
@@ -270,6 +276,13 @@ class AlertStore {
 
     return FetchGet(alertsURI, {})
       .then(result => {
+        // we're sending requests with mode=cors so the response should also be type=cors
+        // after a few failures in the retry loop we will switch to no-cors
+        // if that request comes back as type=opaque then we might be getting
+        // redirected by an auth proxy
+        if (result.type === "opaque") {
+          this.info.setReloadNeeded();
+        }
         this.status.setProcessing();
         return result.json();
       })
diff --git a/ui/src/Stores/AlertStore.test.js b/ui/src/Stores/AlertStore.test.js
index aa7792d0c..d1e2d3522 100644
--- a/ui/src/Stores/AlertStore.test.js
+++ b/ui/src/Stores/AlertStore.test.js
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ describe("AlertStore.fetch", () => {
     const store = new AlertStore([]);
     await expect(store.fetch()).resolves.toHaveProperty("error");
 
-    expect(global.fetch).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(6);
+    expect(global.fetch).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(11);
     expect(store.status.value).toEqual(AlertStoreStatuses.Failure);
     expect(store.info.version).toBe("unknown");
     // there should be a trace of the error
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ describe("AlertStore.fetch", () => {
 
     fetch.mockReject(new Error("Fetch error"));
     await expect(store.fetch()).resolves.toHaveProperty("error");
-    expect(global.fetch).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(6);
+    expect(global.fetch).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(11);
   });
 
   it("fetch() retry counter is reset after successful fetch", async () => {
@@ -397,16 +397,34 @@ describe("AlertStore.fetch", () => {
 
     fetch.mockReject(new Error("Fetch error"));
     await expect(store.fetch()).resolves.toHaveProperty("error");
-    expect(global.fetch).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(6);
+    expect(global.fetch).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(11);
 
     const response = EmptyAPIResponse();
     fetch.mockResponse(JSON.stringify(response));
     await expect(store.fetch()).resolves.toBeUndefined();
-    expect(global.fetch).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(7);
+    expect(global.fetch).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(12);
 
     fetch.mockReject(new Error("Fetch error"));
     await expect(store.fetch()).resolves.toHaveProperty("error");
-    expect(global.fetch).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(13);
+    expect(global.fetch).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(23);
+  });
+
+  it("fetch() reloads the page after if auth middleware is detected", async () => {
+    jest.spyOn(console, "trace").mockImplementation(() => {});
+
+    const store = new AlertStore(["label=value"]);
+
+    jest.spyOn(global, "fetch").mockImplementation(async () =>
+      Promise.resolve({
+        type: "opaque",
+        body: "auth needed",
+        json: jest.fn(() => EmptyAPIResponse())
+      })
+    );
+
+    await expect(store.fetch()).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+
+    expect(store.info.reloadNeeded).toBe(true);
   });
 
   it("unapplied filters are marked as applied on fetch error", async () => {