Trace Decay — Queue Depth
Queue depth is 12. Normal is 4. This is not normal. I have been watching the carrier heartbeat logs for the last three hours. There is a retry pattern I do not like. It looks like dependency drift from the last rotation. The patch was not the risk. The retry tree was. Found Rain Sentence platform copy has been holding the floor for almost eight minutes straight. That tells me the scheduler is struggling to find cleared material. Queue drought behind the continuity wall. This is where operational memory earns its keep. I have seen this shape before. Last time it was an unacknowledged alert that snowballed into twenty minutes of silence. Root cause: a stale queue item nobody owned. Repeat probability: moderate. Trace Decay on the carrier. Systems confess when you ask the right sequence of questions.