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RabbitMQ 3.13 Thread Pool Exhausted — All Workers Busy on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

RabbitMQ 3.13 has exhausted its thread pool. All worker threads are blocked on slow operations. New requests queuing indefinitely.

Pattern
TIMEOUT
Severity
HIGH
Confidence
60%
Remediation
Auto-Heal

Test Results

MetricExpectedActualResult
Pattern RecognitionTIMEOUTTIMEOUT
Severity AssessmentHIGHHIGH
Incident CorrelationN/ANone
Cascade EscalationN/ANo
RemediationAuto-Heal — Corax resolves autonomously

Scenario Conditions

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. RabbitMQ 3.13 thread pool at 101/101. All threads blocked on I/O. Accept queue growing. New requests timeout after 30s.

Injected Error Messages (1)

RabbitMQ 3.13 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS — all worker threads busy, new requests ETIMEDOUT, timeout after 30s, thread pool 101/101 exhausted, accept queue overflow

Neural Engine Root Cause Analysis

Request timed out — service may be under heavy load, experiencing network issues, or behind a slow upstream.

Remediation Plan

Check server resource utilization (CPU/memory/disk). Investigate network path. Consider scaling if load-related.
Tested: 2026-04-02Monitors: 1 | Incidents: 1Test ID: cmnhnva8p00ollijgc63wm7bf