# Travis CI: Usage and backlog spike detected for `sudo: required` builds

> Travis CI status incident “Usage and backlog spike detected for `sudo: required` builds” on 2017-10-03: impact minor (vendor’s label), 4.6 h, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/travis-ci/incidents/7tb9nm7j4zh7
Last updated: 2017-10-03T20:56:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2017-10-03 16:21 UTC · Resolved: 2017-10-03 20:56 UTC · Duration: 4.6 h
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://www.traviscistatus.com/incidents/7tb9nm7j4zh7](https://www.traviscistatus.com/incidents/7tb9nm7j4zh7)
- [Company: Travis CI](https://rewindex.com/company/travis-ci.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2017-10-03 20:56 UTC: There is no longer any backlog for GCE users. We are still investigating requeuing internally and determining the root cause of this issue, but end users should no longer be affected.

_From the vendor’s published history: only the final update text is available for incidents before Rewindex began polling this page._

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by Travis CI, started 2017-10-03 16:21 UTC, resolved after 4.6 h, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/travis-ci/incidents/7tb9nm7j4zh7
- Citation: Travis CI, “Usage and backlog spike detected for `sudo: required` builds” (2017-10-03 16:21 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/travis-ci/incidents/7tb9nm7j4zh7 (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[Travis CI: Usage and backlog spike detected for `sudo: required` builds (2017-10-03)](https://rewindex.com/company/travis-ci/incidents/7tb9nm7j4zh7)`


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