Hello! New to prefect. I am using a free version of prefect cloud. However one of my work queues is ...

benson

11/05/2022, 1:38 AM

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.

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Jeff Hale

11/05/2022, 1:42 AM

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?

benson

11/05/2022, 1:47 AM

$ prefect agent start No work queues provided!

Jeff Hale

11/05/2022, 1:48 AM

add a

-q name_of_work_queue_here

benson

11/05/2022, 1:49 AM

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

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Jeff Hale

11/05/2022, 2:16 AM

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

benson

11/05/2022, 3:15 AM

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?

Jeff Hale

11/05/2022, 11:08 AM

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

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benson

11/05/2022, 4:48 PM

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

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