From 12a59c45b66ca60676383a60e01027bb7d4bb46b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: inphi <mlaw2501@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 18:19:49 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] logging

---
 go/proxyd/latestblock.go | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/go/proxyd/latestblock.go b/go/proxyd/latestblock.go
index a87d69d1a..08c69f09a 100644
--- a/go/proxyd/latestblock.go
+++ b/go/proxyd/latestblock.go
@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@ func (h *LatestBlockHead) Start() error {
 		for {
 			select {
 			case <-ticker.C:
-				log.Trace("polling block head")
 				blockNum, err := h.getBlockNum()
 				if err != nil {
-					log.Error("failed to retrieve block head", "error", err)
+					log.Error("error retrieving latest block number", "error", err)
 				}
+				log.Trace("polling block number", "blockNum", blockNum)
 				h.mutex.Lock()
 				h.blockNum = blockNum
 				h.mutex.Unlock()
@@ -78,7 +78,9 @@ func (h *LatestBlockHead) getBlockNum() (uint64, error) {
 
 		httpRes, httpErr := h.client.Do(httpReq)
 		if httpErr != nil {
-			time.Sleep(calcBackoff(i))
+			backoff := calcBackoff(i)
+			log.Warn("http operation failed. retrying...", "error", err, "backoff", backoff)
+			time.Sleep(backoff)
 			continue
 		}
 		if httpRes.StatusCode != 200 {
-- 
2.23.0