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Is there a way to configure automatic flow retries? I am not aware of one, but just wanted to make sure

Hi <@USDS0AJ5P> - there's not an out of the box way to retry an entire flow, but <https://docs.prefect.io/core/concepts/tasks.html#retries|task retries> will give you more granular control of the portions of your pipeline you may want/need to retry and those that you wouldn't want to.

If you really need to retry a flow, one way I can think to do that would be to have a <https://docs.prefect.io/api/latest/tasks/prefect.html#flowruntask|FlowRunTask> with a <https://docs.prefect.io/api/latest/triggers.html#triggers|trigger> (maybe *`some_failed`* ?) that would kick off another run of the same flow.

The task retries only work if a task fails. If the flow fails in a way such that in doesn't continue (such as if it gets marked failed by the Zombie Killer) then the tasks don't retry, correct?

The zombie killer will only mark _tasks_ as failed (rather than the flow as a whole). An upcoming Cloud release will allow tasks with retries to implement retry logic even when they're marked by the zombie killer (should be coming very soon!)