Azure DevOps Pipelines stopped running

Question

I am trying to deploy a new project through Azure DevOpsPipelines and it shows is as queued for an hour (normally it starts right away or within minutes).

It also says "This agent request is not running because you have reached the maximum number of requests that can run for parallelism type 'Microsoft-Hosted Private'. Current position in queue: 1"

I have also tried to run a pipeline for one of my existing projects and it has the same issue. Last time I successfully deployed for this projects 8 days ago.

I have seen that they have introduced new rules for free grants for Azure Pipelines for new organizations. I was wondering if these rules are applied to all organizations (including old ones)?

I have sent the email as they requested I am just wondering if they have just taken the free access to Azure pipelines from everyone?

I am also quite new to Azure DevOps so I am wondering if this is a regular thing that Azure services just stop working?

thanks everyone!

Update: here is my parallel jobs screenshot

Update: my Azure Pipelines

Answer 1

I was wondering if these rules are applied to all organizations (including old ones)?

This change only impacts new organizations. It doesn't apply to existing projects or organizations. This does not change the amount of free grant you can get. It only adds an extra step to get that free grant.

I have sent the email as they requested I am just wondering if they have just taken the free access to Azure pipelines from everyone?

It may take some days to process your requests, please wait patiently.

I am wondering if this is a regular thing that Azure services just stop working?

Azure Pipelines has been offering free CI/CD to public and private projects for several years. Because this amounts to giving away free compute, it has always been a target for abuse – especially crypto mining. Minimizing this abuse has always taken energy from the team. Over the past few months, the situation has gotten substantially worse, with a high percentage of new projects in Azure DevOps being used for crypto mining and other activities we classify as abusive. Several service incidents over the past month have been caused by this abuse resulting in long wait times for existing customers.

To address this situation, we've added an extra step for new organizations in Azure DevOps to get their free grant.

Please refer to this release notes .

As a temporary alternative, you can install and use self-hosted agents. Please refer to this document .