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Jan 2, 2026 · Databases

StarRocks Production Incident: Continuous Report Refresh Triggers Cluster Crash & Recovery

This article details a StarRocks cluster crash caused by users continuously refreshing reconciliation dashboards, the emergency response including query timeout reduction and compute node scaling, root cause analysis highlighting storage-compute separation benefits, and long-term preventive measures like business reporting processes, Multi-Warehouse isolation, and query governance.