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description: Shared content, otelcol Kafka metadata retry
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The `retry` block configures how to retry retrieving metadata when retrieval fails.

The following arguments are supported:

| Name          | Type       | Description                                      | Default   | Required |
| ------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------ | --------- | -------- |
| `backoff`     | `duration` | Time to wait between retries.                    | `"250ms"` | no       |
| `max_retries` | `number`   | How many times to reattempt retrieving metadata. | `3`       | no       |
