diff --git a/crates/admin/src/cluster_controller/service.rs b/crates/admin/src/cluster_controller/service.rs
index 0ef7068f0..a1de5eaea 100644
--- a/crates/admin/src/cluster_controller/service.rs
+++ b/crates/admin/src/cluster_controller/service.rs
@@ -320,7 +320,6 @@ impl<T: TransportConnect> Service<T> {
                 },
                 Ok(cluster_state) = cluster_state_watcher.next_cluster_state() => {
                     self.observed_cluster_state.update(&cluster_state);
-                    // todo: potentially downgrade to trace
                     trace!("Observed cluster state updated");
                     // todo quarantine this cluster controller if errors re-occur too often so that
                     //  another cluster controller can take over
diff --git a/crates/bifrost/src/bifrost.rs b/crates/bifrost/src/bifrost.rs
index 854b514ae..e5c9cc23b 100644
--- a/crates/bifrost/src/bifrost.rs
+++ b/crates/bifrost/src/bifrost.rs
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::sync::OnceLock;
 
 use enum_map::EnumMap;
-use tracing::instrument;
+use restate_types::config::Configuration;
+use tokio::time::Instant;
+use tracing::{info, instrument, warn};
 
 use restate_core::{Metadata, MetadataKind, MetadataWriter, TargetVersion};
 use restate_types::logs::metadata::{MaybeSegment, ProviderKind, Segment};
@@ -22,7 +24,7 @@ use restate_types::storage::StorageEncode;
 
 use crate::appender::Appender;
 use crate::background_appender::BackgroundAppender;
-use crate::loglet::LogletProvider;
+use crate::loglet::{LogletProvider, OperationError};
 use crate::loglet_wrapper::LogletWrapper;
 use crate::watchdog::WatchdogSender;
 use crate::{BifrostAdmin, Error, InputRecord, LogReadStream, Result};
@@ -385,8 +387,54 @@ impl BifrostInner {
 
     pub async fn find_tail(&self, log_id: LogId) -> Result<(LogletWrapper, TailState)> {
         let loglet = self.writeable_loglet(log_id).await?;
-        let tail = loglet.find_tail().await?;
-        Ok((loglet, tail))
+        let start = Instant::now();
+        // uses the same retry policy as reads to not add too many configuration keys
+        let mut logged = false;
+        let mut retry_iter = Configuration::pinned()
+            .bifrost
+            .read_retry_policy
+            .clone()
+            .into_iter();
+        loop {
+            match loglet.find_tail().await {
+                Ok(tail) => {
+                    if logged {
+                        info!(
+                            %log_id,
+                            "Found the log tail after {} attempts, time spent is {:?}",
+                             retry_iter.attempts(),
+                             start.elapsed()
+                        );
+                    }
+                    return Ok((loglet, tail));
+                }
+                Err(err @ OperationError::Shutdown(_)) => {
+                    return Err(err.into());
+                }
+                Err(OperationError::Other(err)) if !err.retryable() => {
+                    return Err(err.into());
+                }
+                // retryable errors
+                Err(OperationError::Other(err)) => {
+                    // retry with exponential backoff
+                    let Some(sleep_dur) = retry_iter.next() else {
+                        // retries exhausted
+                        return Err(err.into());
+                    };
+                    if retry_iter.attempts() > retry_iter.max_attempts() / 2 {
+                        warn!(
+                            %log_id,
+                            attempts = retry_iter.attempts(),
+                            retry_after = ?sleep_dur,
+                                "Cannot find the tail of the log, will retry. err={}",
+                            err
+                        );
+                        logged = true;
+                    }
+                    tokio::time::sleep(sleep_dur).await;
+                }
+            }
+        }
     }
 
     async fn get_trim_point(&self, log_id: LogId) -> Result<Lsn, Error> {
diff --git a/crates/bifrost/src/error.rs b/crates/bifrost/src/error.rs
index 78520c6a8..9823a0f16 100644
--- a/crates/bifrost/src/error.rs
+++ b/crates/bifrost/src/error.rs
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ pub type Result<T, E = Error> = std::result::Result<T, E>;
 pub enum Error {
     #[error("metadata store doesn't have an entry for log metadata")]
     LogsMetadataNotProvisioned,
-    #[error("log '{0}' is sealed")]
-    LogSealed(LogId),
+    // #[error("log '{0}' is sealed")]
+    // LogSealed(LogId),
     #[error("unknown log '{0}'")]
     UnknownLogId(LogId),
     #[error("invalid log sequence number '{0}'")]
diff --git a/crates/types/src/retries.rs b/crates/types/src/retries.rs
index 4704794f2..b97de42ba 100644
--- a/crates/types/src/retries.rs
+++ b/crates/types/src/retries.rs
@@ -235,6 +235,26 @@ pub struct RetryIter<'a> {
     last_retry: Option<Duration>,
 }
 
+impl RetryIter<'_> {
+    /// The number of attempts on this retry iterator so far
+    pub fn attempts(&self) -> usize {
+        self.attempts
+    }
+
+    pub fn max_attempts(&self) -> usize {
+        let max_attempts = match self.policy.as_ref() {
+            RetryPolicy::None => return 0,
+            RetryPolicy::FixedDelay { max_attempts, .. } => max_attempts,
+            RetryPolicy::Exponential { max_attempts, .. } => max_attempts,
+        };
+        max_attempts.unwrap_or(NonZeroUsize::MAX).into()
+    }
+
+    pub fn remaining_attempts(&self) -> usize {
+        self.max_attempts() - self.attempts()
+    }
+}
+
 impl Iterator for RetryIter<'_> {
     type Item = Duration;