Queue Delay Incident 2026-01-12

Severity: high Last verified: 2026-02-20
queueworkers latencytimeouts backpressureworker-autoscale

Summary

A burst of retries saturated worker pools and delayed event processing by up to 24 minutes.

Corrective Actions

  • Added retry jitter and dead-letter guardrails.
  • Added backlog-age autoscaling target.