# Activity Retries up to Max Attempts(3), but workflow logs show 60 Activity Timeouts

**URL:** https://community.temporal.io/t/activity-retries-up-to-max-attempts-3-but-workflow-logs-show-60-activity-timeouts/9440
**Category:** Community Support
**Tags:** java-sdk, general-impl
**Created:** [September 11, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.temporal.io/t/activity-retries-up-to-max-attempts-3-but-workflow-logs-show-60-activity-timeouts/9440 "2023-09-11T16:44:02Z")
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### Author: ![workflow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/58956e/32.png) [@workflow](https://community.temporal.io/u/workflow)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.temporal.io/t/activity-retries-up-to-max-attempts-3-but-workflow-logs-show-60-activity-timeouts/9440/1 "2023-09-11T16:44:02Z")

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One of our child workflow has an activity with retry policy set as

```kotlin
ActivityOptions {
            setStartToCloseTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(6))
            setRetryOptions {
                setInitialInterval(Duration.ofSeconds(1))
                setMaximumInterval(Duration.ofSeconds(2))
                setBackoffCoefficient(2.0)
                setMaximumAttempts(3)
            }
        }

```

Temporal Frontend history shows activity retried - 3 attempts and failed, but our logs & traces (opentracing)show 60 spans of workflow failed

`Workflow execution failure WorkflowId=xxx, RunId=yyy, WorkflowType=SomeWorkflow - message, column 4, row 60`

with exception

```auto
io.temporal.failure.ActivityFailure: scheduledEventId=11, startedEventId=18, activityType='GetSomething', activityId='abc', 
identity='', retryState=RETRY_STATE_MAXIMUM_ATTEMPTS_REACHED
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.getStackTrace(Thread.java:1602)

```

should not we just see 3 entries/spans instead of 60?