Outage in dbt Cloud
Some job runs failing with "Unexpected acquire failure.." and API briefly unavailable
Resolved Minor
December 16, 2025 - Started 5 days ago
- Lasted about 2 hours
Incident Report
We are currently monitoring an issue that impacted some job runs and resulted in run failures with error message "Unexpected acquire failure. Please retry the run or contact support if failure persists". We also observed an impact to the API availability. These have since been resolved and we're continuing to monitor.
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5 days ago - at 12/16/2025 02:06AM
We are currently monitoring an issue that impacted some job runs and resulted in run failures with error message "Unexpected acquire failure. Please retry the run or contact support if failure persists". We also observed an impact to the API availability. These have since been resolved and we're continuing to monitor.
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