diff --git a/docs/docs/how-tos/node-retries.ipynb b/docs/docs/how-tos/node-retries.ipynb
index 929b76984..3616297c9 100644
--- a/docs/docs/how-tos/node-retries.ipynb
+++ b/docs/docs/how-tos/node-retries.ipynb
@@ -82,6 +82,28 @@
     "RetryPolicy()"
    ]
   },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "By default, the `retry_on` parameter uses the `default_retry_on` function, which retries on any exception except for the following:\n",
+    "\n",
+    "*   `ValueError`\n",
+    "*   `TypeError`\n",
+    "*   `ArithmeticError`\n",
+    "*   `ImportError`\n",
+    "*   `LookupError`\n",
+    "*   `NameError`\n",
+    "*   `SyntaxError`\n",
+    "*   `RuntimeError`\n",
+    "*   `ReferenceError`\n",
+    "*   `StopIteration`\n",
+    "*   `StopAsyncIteration`\n",
+    "*   `OSError`\n",
+    "\n",
+    "In addition, for exceptions from popular http request libraries such as `requests` and `httpx` it only retries on 5xx status codes."
+   ]
+  },
   {
    "cell_type": "markdown",
    "metadata": {},