# Upstash: QStash: Degraded performance

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: postmortem
- Started: 2025-04-18 12:36 UTC · Resolved: 2025-04-18 13:18 UTC · Duration: 42 min
- Updates: 5 · Affected components: EU-CENTRAL-1, QStash
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/9l3qcmypt8cs](https://stspg.io/9l3qcmypt8cs)
- [Company: Upstash](https://rewindex.com/company/upstash.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **investigating** 2025-04-18 12:36 UTC: We are currently investigating this issue.
- **investigating** 2025-04-18 12:36 UTC: We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- **monitoring** 2025-04-18 12:46 UTC: A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- **resolved** 2025-04-18 13:18 UTC: This incident has been resolved.
- **postmortem** 2025-04-18 13:19 UTC: An internal cleanup task for QStash events, coinciding with disc layer compaction task has caused performance degradation to some users.  ‌ Mitigation: Team has mitigated the event by pausing some of these tasks and monitored the status for a while. ‌ Fixes: Improvements are being applied to these tasks to use resources more gracefully. Disk resources are increased to be able to handle a bigger burst of load.


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