# Waiting until facts are gathered from all hosts?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/waiting-until-facts-are-gathered-from-all-hosts/19353>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** aws\
**Created:** [September 25, 2015, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/waiting-until-facts-are-gathered-from-all-hosts/19353 "2015-09-25T12:37:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tennis\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Tennis\_Smith](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tennis_Smith)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/waiting-until-facts-are-gathered-from-all-hosts/19353/1 "2015-09-25T12:37:47Z")

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Hi,

Is there a way to force a wait until facts can be gathered from all hosts? I have 17 machines on aws and often 1 or 2 will not be reachable when the initial fact-gathering happens.

How can I retry until I’m certain all hosts have been successfully gathered?

Thanks,  
-T