diff --git a/.config/nextest.toml b/.config/nextest.toml
index 48f5d07c1..c89c5c852 100644
--- a/.config/nextest.toml
+++ b/.config/nextest.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 [profile.ci]
 fail-fast = false
 failure-output = "immediate-final"
-status-level = "fail"
+# `retry` (not `fail`) prints each failed attempt, with its output, even when a
+# retry then passes. A flaky test otherwise leaves only a `FLAKY 2/3` line, with
+# nothing saying why the first attempt failed, so the flake can't be diagnosed
+# from CI and just gets retried again.
+status-level = "retry"
 final-status-level = "slow"
 retries = 2
 # Mark a test slow after 120s and hard-kill it after 4 periods (8 min). A