Cron job Elastic Beanstalk issue

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Here is my Python code for two cron jobs:

 scheduler.add_job(
        func=process_users_main,
        trigger="cron",
        minute="0/30"
    )
    scheduler.add_job(
        func=func2,
        trigger="cron",
        hour="0/3",
        minute=15
    )

I am currently hosting this on AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

This works fine for about 24hrs but then the system just seems to crash with this error: Execution of job "main (trigger: cron[minute='0/30'], next run at: 2023-08-10 17:30:00 UTC)" skipped: maximum number of running instances reached (1)

For reference, these cron jobs are not very computationally heavy (are quite fast/easy to run). What I do not understand is why it works for about 24hrs before it breaks.

Should I consider using AWS lambda for these cron jobs instead?

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2 Answers
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Could be the Auto Scaling group issue, how many instances do you have when running 2 cron jobs and how many instances ASG allows? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/using-features.managing.ec2.html

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answered 9 months ago
  • Is there any way for me to check how/why Elastic Beanstalk was trying to autoscale? Because I do not understand why it was working perfectly fine for almost 24hrs and then suddenly needed to auto scale (and could not) so the corn job/scheduling function stopped working.

  • I also added my configuration to the above for the auto scaling. Would love any suggestions. Thanks

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Current status: 1 min, 4 max

Can you check how many instances do you have when the error occurs?

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answered 9 months ago
  • Thanks for your reply. How would I do this (I did not set up the load balancer logs before)?

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