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Hi! No rush on this, but let’s say we have a function task that’s been retried twice already, and it succeeds on the third retry. Is there any way for us to “access” that `nth_retry` data? Does prefect internally maintain that state that we can access? Or in `prefect.context`?

Thank you!

Hey <@U01FYBSREFR>, what piece of data are you trying to access? Like the error?

Hey Kevin! Not necessarily the error, but rather some way (directly or otherwise) that can tell me “here’s how many times this tasked has failed prior (if at all)“. I imagine this could be arranged as some sort of global counter, but ideally there’s a more Prefect-compatible approach.

I think this page tells me that what I want might be found under `prefect.context.task_run_count`?

<https://docs.prefect.io/api/latest/utilities/context.html>

Yep! I think that is what you’re looking for.