4.4 Queue and Live Operations

Orbnetes deployment and release orchestration documentation for operators and platform teams.

This area reflects current workload lifecycle: queued jobs, running jobs, and live execution transitions.

What this block is for:

  • Understand delivery throughput and backlog in real time.
  • Distinguish waiting for capacity vs actively running.
  • Decide whether to scale agents, rerun, cancel, or wait.

Common states to monitor:

  • queued (waiting for matching available agent),
  • running (actively executing),
  • pending approval (governance gate),
  • blocked by dependency (needs),
  • terminal states (succeeded/failed/canceled).

How to act from this block:

  • If queue grows with idle agents: check tag mismatch/project access.
  • If queue grows with busy agents: add capacity or reduce concurrency pressure.
  • If running is stuck long: open live job log and inspect current step heartbeat/output.

Operational best practice:

  • Track queue depth trend, not only current number.
  • Recurring queue spikes usually indicate architecture/tag design issue, not one-off job failure.