Hi Prefect, It seems that a Tasks

on_failure

handler is called even when there is retry logic added to the Task, and the task still hasn't exhausted its

max_retries

. (I think I just had a Task on which the

on_failure

handler was called, even though it succeeded in a retry.) Is there a way to add a failure handler that is called only after the task has exhausted all its retries and has truly failed?

Could you give me a minimum reproducible example for this one?

I circumvented the issue by switching to Triggers instead of using

on_failure

Oh ok thanks for letting me know. We were looking into this and you’re right because the task goes from Running -> Failed -> Retrying and the failed hits the state handler.

Thanks for letting me know that you also run into this. I thought this was unexpected behavior, and was surprised by it.