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Astronomer: Tasks getting stuck in the queued state and failing
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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Affected components: Scheduling and Running DAGs and Tasks
Timeline of updates
- investigating
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.
- resolved
Our development team has concluded that this was a false alert. It is not affecting multiple deployments.
Rewindex changes for this incident
- Critical incident: Tasks getting stuck in the queued state and failing 2026-10-01 22:40 UTC
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