What’s the difference between attempts and retries on laravel horizon?

While trying to debug some strange MaxAttemptsExceededException errors, I stumbled upon a strange thing on horizon screen.

For the failed job, it shows

Attempts
5
Retries
0

which means, the job is attempted 5 times but never retried.

Is this a horizon bug? If not how can overcome this issue?

I have

'tries' => 1,
'timeout' => 360,
and 
'retry_after' => 420,

I’m using laravel 8.30.1 and horizon 5.7.0

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Method 1

Attempts
5
Retries
0

Retries is a Horizon feature, it’s not related to tries config or public $tries = 5;.

Attempts: 5 means the job retried 5 times before it was be considered a “failed” job.

If you press the retry button on Horizon dashboard, you will notice that Horizon will create a new job with label Retry of 1d56c51b and the Retries of the previous job now is 1.

In the previous job detail, you also see the list of retries jobs.

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