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Fixes connector returned success but data remains in the work covered by this query by taking the specific step below first. Use when this exact failure blocks collection, review, or fulfilment. Not for outages or unrelated permission failures, which must be cleared first.
Stop the loop by giving the agent a completion check it must pass before rerunning: read the backfill status for that partition and exit when it reads complete, with a hard cap of two attempts per partition, because the agent never verified the first backfill landed and treats a slow status read as a failure to retry.…
Fixes requester not told of delay in the work covered by this query by taking the specific step below first. Use when this exact failure blocks collection, review, or fulfilment. Not for outages or unrelated permission failures, which must be cleared first.
Break the loop with a terminal-state check the agent trusts: it kept re-querying because its completion test never matched, usually comparing status strings case-sensitively, checking a field the API returns under another name, or polling a stale cached response. Use when an agent waiting on MLflow or tracker runs to …
Poll with a budget and a heartbeat check instead of a single long wait: query the run's status at lengthening intervals, verify liveness from the job system as well as the tracker, and when the budget ends report the run's last known state rather than failing as if the run failed. Use when an agent supervising long tr…
Fixes a release workflow that fails when the Superset REST API times out while the agent tries to schedule the dashboard delivery, by making the workflow poll for completion and resume partial work. Use when the workflow reports a timeout error for a step that may have finished server side. Not for a workflow failing …
Fixes an agent hanging on a warehouse query that never returns by enforcing statement timeouts, query cancellation, and a watchdog on every warehouse call. Use when runs hang indefinitely instead of failing. Not for queries that are slow but progressing within a known budget.
Fixes a snapshot broken after an agent reordered models in the DAG, moving the snapshot before an upstream model it depends on. Use when a snapshot runs against stale or missing upstream data after a DAG change. Not for snapshots whose upstream is a raw source.
Fixes false stale alerts from a Dagster freshness threshold that does not match the asset's real cadence, covering lag windows, cron policies, and aligning the threshold with the schedule and business tolerance. Use when assets are flagged stale while landing on time. Not for an asset whose upstream really is late.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - dagster asset materialization failed: check severity error blocking - agent can't parse dagster event log timestamps, parsing failed
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent looped re-triggering a failed dagster asset materialization
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent timed out waiting for airflow dag run to finish, dag run stuck in running - airflow backfill created duplicate dag runs, how to fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's airflow backfill command timed out before any dag runs were created
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes dbt Cloud jobs stuck in Queued state for hours without starting. Use when a job never transitions to Running and no steps execute. Not for jobs that run but hang on a warehouse query.
Clarifies the Celery beat confusion in Airflow and fixes the real cause when scheduled DAG runs stop: the Airflow scheduler, its scheduler loop, or a single beat instance for embedded Celery scheduling. Use when cron style schedules stop creating runs. Not for a DAG whose schedule is None or that is paused.
Explains how to recover when marking a task successful in the Airflow UI cleared or orphaned downstream task states, and how to rebuild the run state safely. Use when a mark success or clear was applied to a live run by mistake. Not for a DAG run that failed on its own with no manual state change.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - Airflow 3.3.1 marking DAG run success returns 409 Conflict even though it applied - airflow dag run stuck in running state - …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: airflow mark success wiped downstream task states, how to recover
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes deferrable sensors and operators that stay in deferred state because the triggerer is down, the trigger class cannot be imported by the triggerer, or trigger capacity is exhausted. Use when a task shows deferred indefinitely. Not for classic poke or reschedule sensors that never enter deferred state.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - airflow zombie tasks stuck in queued, scheduler not picking them up - airflow deferrable operators triggerer config - [agent …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: airflow deferrable sensor stuck in deferred state, triggerer not picki
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Diagnoses zombie and orphaned tasks that sit in queued while the scheduler stops adopting them, covering executor slots, heartbeat loss, and stale task instance rows. Use when task instances stay queued with healthy workers. Not for a DAG that is paused or a pool that is simply full by design.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - Airflow backfill tasks stuck in No status: scheduler starves backfill runs - executor reports task instance finished" zombie tasks
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: airflow zombie tasks stuck in queued, scheduler not picking them up
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - Airflow backfill tasks stuck in No status: scheduler starves backfill runs - executor reports task instance finished" zombie tasks
Problem outcome: unknown