Astronomer incident
Terminating Workers Accepting Tasks Causing Failures in Astro Executor
Astronomer experienced a minor incident on April 17, 2026 affecting Scheduling and Running DAGs and Tasks and Scheduling and Running DAGs and Tasks, lasting 3h 42m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Scheduling and Running DAGs and TasksScheduling and Running DAGs and Tasks
Update timeline
- investigating Apr 17, 2026, 08:04 AM UTC
We have identified an issue with Astro Executor deployments where terminating workers can continue to accept new tasks, which can, in some cases, can cause these tasks to fail.
- identified Apr 17, 2026, 08:05 AM UTC
We have identified the issue and we are rolling out the fix for the affected deployments.
- monitoring Apr 17, 2026, 10:01 AM UTC
The fix has been implemented, and we are now monitoring the deployments.
- resolved Apr 17, 2026, 11:47 AM UTC
This issue has been resolved.