# Notification for retries

**URL:** <https://forum.buildkite.community/t/notification-for-retries/2195>\
**Category:** Features Requests\
**Created:** [August 30, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/notification-for-retries/2195 "2022-08-30T14:54:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![cwmaier-grapl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@cwmaier-grapl](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/cwmaier-grapl)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/notification-for-retries/2195/1 "2022-08-30T14:54:41Z")

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When a build is retried, it would be useful to emit a notification to Slack, etc. saying what was retried, and who initiated the retry.

This would provide additional visibility, and prevent people from having to hunt down this information on their own.

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**Author:** ![maxwittek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@maxwittek](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/maxwittek)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/notification-for-retries/2195/2 "2022-08-30T15:04:17Z")

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+1, i’d love this!

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**Author:** ![paula](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.buildkite.community/paula/32/954_2.png) [@paula](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/paula)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/notification-for-retries/2195/3 "2022-08-31T15:45:08Z")

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Hey @cwmaier-grapl! 👋

Interesting!

We currently only send the status of the build (if it failed, passed, it’s canceled), and we do not include the info on how it was triggered. But I think an option could be to check the value of `BUILDKITE_REBUILT_FROM_BUILD_NUMBER` which is going to be empty if the build was not retried, and `BUILDKITE_BUILD_CREATOR` will have the information of the user who did the Rebuild.

Best!