[amoghrajesh]

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What

When a retry policy is configured, the decision it makes ("retry" or "fail", and why) is only ever logged as a single structlog line: "Retry policy decision". That line renders inside the ::group::Post Execute collapsed section of the task log viewer, so a Dag author or a user viewing logs has to expand a collapsed group to see why their task did or didn't retry, which is the one place this information surfaces today.

Current behaviour

_evaluate_retry_policy logs the decision unconditionally after the Post Execute group is opened by the calling exception handler, so the log viewer hides it by default.

Proposed change

Close the Post Execute group immediately before logging the retry decision, so the line renders visibly instead of nested inside a collapsed section. Nothing meaningful is logged between the retry decision and the end of the task run in any failure path (_finalize_task_failure logs nothing, and run()'s finally block only logs on rare supervisor-send failures), so the group is left closed rather than reopened.

Testing

• Ran the example_llm_retry_policy DAG

Before:

Now:

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[kaxil]

2nd screenshot also still shows it in "post execute"

[amoghrajesh]

@kaxil first and second screenshots were before the changes. Third is after

[kaxil]

@kaxil first and second screenshots were before the changes. Third is after

Second and third looks same to me apart from your highlight/selected text

Oh I see it now!