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title: "Log pattern matching for Auto-Retry rules"
date: 2026-03-23
tags:
  - CI Insights
description: "Auto-Retry rules can now match against job log content to decide whether a failed job should be retried"
---

A new `log_pattern` condition is now available for Auto-Retry rules. When a CI job fails, Mergify can stream the job's logs and match them against regex patterns you define. This lets you target retries to specific, known transient failures — such as network timeouts or flaky infrastructure errors — instead of blindly retrying every failure.