Scale-in kills runners mid-job and leaves orphans
Scale-in terminates runner instances in the middle of active jobs and leaves orphaned runners registered in GitLab.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 10 May 2021 · last reported 15 May 2025
What's going wrong
Teams that autoscale GitLab runners on AWS report that instances are removed while they still run jobs, which fails pipelines without warning.
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