# "Failed but passed on retry" state / notification

**URL:** <https://forum.buildkite.community/t/failed-but-passed-on-retry-state-notification/163>\
**Category:** Features Requests\
**Created:** [December 13, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/failed-but-passed-on-retry-state-notification/163 "2018-12-13T02:29:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![mipearson\_envato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@mipearson\_envato](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/mipearson_envato)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/failed-but-passed-on-retry-state-notification/163/1 "2018-12-13T02:29:01Z")

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We have a few builds with flaky elements (eg external APIs, spot instances being terminated, etc) where we specifically _don’t_ use Buildkite’s per-step retry functionality as we don’t want the flakiness being masked / ignored.

What I’d love is a “This build passed, but we had to retry some steps” notification/state. Build would appear as green but with a caveat, and would be reflected in slack/other notifications about the build.