# BulkProcess: Knowing retry attempt in logs

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulkprocess-knowing-retry-attempt-in-logs/106845>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 8, 2017, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulkprocess-knowing-retry-attempt-in-logs/106845 "2017-11-08T10:23:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![pokaleshrey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pokaleshrey/32/48680_2.png) [@pokaleshrey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pokaleshrey)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulkprocess-knowing-retry-attempt-in-logs/106845/1 "2017-11-08T10:23:28Z")

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We have been using bulkProcessor for 5.6.3.  
We have set the policy as exponentialBackOff with default values.

Is there a way to log the retry attempts and its corresponding bulk request number ?  
We need to know this for monitoring purpose.

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**Author:** ![pokaleshrey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pokaleshrey/32/48680_2.png) [@pokaleshrey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pokaleshrey)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulkprocess-knowing-retry-attempt-in-logs/106845/2 "2017-11-10T15:00:53Z")

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Any suggestions ?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulkprocess-knowing-retry-attempt-in-logs/106845/3 "2017-12-08T15:00:53Z")

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Closed on December 8, 2017, 3:00pm UTC

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