ReLab

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Run

Status
FAILED
Workflow
data-pipeline v1
Run id
29780383-a221-4743-8fd1-72660de1e6d5
Seed
7
Scenario
upstream-down-throughout
Duration
2.97s

3 of 4 tasks did not succeed

This run was disrupted and did not finish

3 tasks exhausted its attempts and was dead-lettered. All of it is in the 28 events below.

What happened

The milestones of this run, in the order they were recorded. Each one is a real event; the full sequence is in the timeline below.

  1. Run started#6 23:31:04.036
    RUN_STARTED

    A worker picked up the first task in the run.

  2. Failure injected on purpose validate#11 23:31:04.049
    FAULT_INJECTED

    ReLab degraded the real system here. This is the break, and everything after it is the recovery.

  3. Retry scheduled validate#13 23:31:04.050
    TASK_RETRY_SCHEDULED

    The task will be offered again after a backoff delay.

  4. Task running validate#16 23:31:04.893
    TASK_STARTED

    The handler began executing. Each attempt writes one of these.

  5. Task gave up validate#25 23:31:06.990
    TASK_DEAD_LETTERED

    The task exhausted its attempts and will not be tried again.

  6. Workflow failed#28 23:31:06.990
    RUN_FAILED

    A task ran out of attempts and the run could not continue.

What the journal proves

4
Attempts
1
Workers involved
3
Faults injected
0
Leases expired
0
Tasks requeued
2
Retries scheduled
0
Workers lost
0
Effects suppressed
3
Dead-lettered
2.94s
Recovery

Every number above is a count of events in this run’s journal. Recovery is measured from the first fault, lease expiry, task failure or lost worker to the run completing, the same interval relab test asserts on.

Tasks

Each task in the run, with the attempt it reached and the worker that last held it.
StatusTaskAttemptWorkerError
DEADanalyze0/3··
SUCCEEDEDimport1/3db3c6da3·
DEADreport0/3··
DEADvalidate3/3·injected http-error fault: upstream returned 503

Timeline

The run’s complete recorded history, in sequence order. This is the same journal relab replay reduces. Filtering hides rows from this view; it never changes the sequence numbers, so a gap in them is still a gap.

3 of 28 recorded events, oldest first.
SeqTimeWhat happenedTaskWorkerTechnical detail
1123:31:04.049Failure injected on purposeFAULT_INJECTEDvalidate·
fault_type=http-error

ReLab degraded the real system here. This is the break, and everything after it is the recovery.

Event
FAULT_INJECTED
Sequence
11
Task
validate
Worker
·
Occurred at
2026-09-02T23:31:04.049284Z
{
  "v": 1,
  "draw": 0,
  "seed": 7,
  "params": {
    "status": 503
  },
  "scenario": "upstream-down-throughout",
  "fault_type": "http-error",
  "fault_point": "after-task-start"
}
1723:31:04.895Failure injected on purposeFAULT_INJECTEDvalidate·
fault_type=http-error

ReLab degraded the real system here. This is the break, and everything after it is the recovery.

Event
FAULT_INJECTED
Sequence
17
Task
validate
Worker
·
Occurred at
2026-09-02T23:31:04.895061Z
{
  "v": 1,
  "draw": 0,
  "seed": 7,
  "params": {
    "status": 503
  },
  "scenario": "upstream-down-throughout",
  "fault_type": "http-error",
  "fault_point": "after-task-start"
}
2323:31:06.989Failure injected on purposeFAULT_INJECTEDvalidate·
fault_type=http-error

ReLab degraded the real system here. This is the break, and everything after it is the recovery.

Event
FAULT_INJECTED
Sequence
23
Task
validate
Worker
·
Occurred at
2026-09-02T23:31:06.989598Z
{
  "v": 1,
  "draw": 0,
  "seed": 7,
  "params": {
    "status": 503
  },
  "scenario": "upstream-down-throughout",
  "fault_type": "http-error",
  "fault_point": "after-task-start"
}
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