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Astronomer: Critical incident: Tasks getting stuck in the queued state and failing
Summary
Astronomer reported a critical incident involving tasks stuck queued or failing on several hosted deployments, initially citing worker autoscaler scaling issues. It started at 2026-10-01 22:40 UTC and was resolved at 2026-10-01 23:47 UTC, lasting 1 h 7 min; the final update called it a false alert and said multiple deployments were not affected.
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After: We have identified several hosted deployments where tasks are getting stuck in the queued state and failing. This is happening the worker autoscaler is having issues with scaling up workers to run tasks. We are investigating the cause of this.
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After: Our development team has concluded that this was a false alert. It is not affecting multiple deployments.
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History of this incident
| When (UTC) | Change | Kind |
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| Critical incident: Tasks getting stuck in the queued state and failing (this change) Astronomer reported a critical incident involving tasks stuck queued or failing on several hosted deployments, initially citing worker autoscaler scaling issues. It started at 2026-10-01 22:40 UTC and was resolved at 2026-10-01 23:47 UTC, lasting 1 h 7 min; the final update called it a false alert and said multiple deployments were not affected. | Major incident |
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