Some workflows get errored out, and retry on fail doesn't work

Describe the problem/error/question

Basically I am making a post request with a pdf file to n8n, and passing it over to Google cloud storage bucket from here. But sometimes it fails. If I manually retry, it succeeds. I have also enabled retry on fail, but that doesn’t work, it never retries on its own.

What is the error message (if any)?


This is what I get when it fails

Please share your workflow


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Hi @Anand_Patel Welcome to n8n :n8n: community :tada:

It sounds like the issue might be with intermittent Google Cloud errors, which can occasionally happen due to temporary outages or rate limits. Even though you’ve enabled “retry on fail” in n8n, it might not be catching these specific failures.

You could try implementing a custom retry logic with a delay (e.g., wait a few minutes and then retry), especially if you’re getting specific error codes from Google Cloud. That way, it can handle transient issues more gracefully.

Hi @mohamed3nan, just trying this out right now. Will keep you posted!

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