diff --git a/hcf_backend/manager.py b/hcf_backend/manager.py
index 3b7ac8f..b40b67b 100644
--- a/hcf_backend/manager.py
+++ b/hcf_backend/manager.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def flush(self, slot=None):
                 slot_obj = self._frontier.get(slot)
                 slot_obj.flush()
                 self._links_to_flush_count[slot] = 0
-                LOG.info('Flushed %d link(s) to slot %s', slot)
+                LOG.info('Flushed %d link(s) to slot %s', n_links_to_flush, slot)
 
         return n_links_to_flush
 
diff --git a/hcf_backend/utils/crawlmanager.py b/hcf_backend/utils/crawlmanager.py
index 5a119bc..3f7c4d0 100644
--- a/hcf_backend/utils/crawlmanager.py
+++ b/hcf_backend/utils/crawlmanager.py
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 import random
 import logging
 
+from scrapinghub import ScrapinghubClient
+
 from shub_workflow.crawl import CrawlManager
 
 from hcf_backend.utils.hcfpal import HCFPal
@@ -23,6 +25,7 @@ class HCFCrawlManager(CrawlManager):
 
     def __init__(self):
         super().__init__()
+        super.client = ScrapinghubClient(max_retries=10, max_retry_time=3600)
         self.hcfpal = HCFPal(self.client._hsclient.get_project(self.project_id))
 
     def add_argparser_options(self):