Hello! New to prefect. I am using a free version of prefect cloud. However one of my work queues is “unhealthy” and scheduled run is “late”. Wondering how to remedy, and what an “unhealthy” queue means.

An unhealthy queue just means that an agent has not polled the queue for work within the past minute. Do you have an agent running for that queue?

$ prefect agent start No work queues provided!

add a

-q name_of_work_queue_here

Oh that did the trick. The work queue is healthy again. What was the issue?

No problem, per se, just “An unhealthy queue just means that an agent has not polled the queue for work within the past minute.”

But what if there is time-sensitive business logic? Is it because I’m using a free version of prefect and the prefect agent/cpu doesn’t come very often to my work queue?

Nope. You control the infrastructure your agent runs on. It's part of the Prefect hybrid model.

That makes a lot of sense after looking it up, love the decoupling