We have the same problem with version 8.2. . Every day the background tasks get stuck on different projects. There is not a single error in the logs.

Background tasks get stuck on different projects

dmeneses (Duarte Meneses) August 18, 2020, 7:00pm 13

Thanks. So looks like what’s getting stuck is the pull request decoration with GitLab. Do you use GitLab on-prem or gitlab.com?
More details here: https://jira.sonarsource.com/browse/SONAR-13290

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