Dealing with Delays and Resource Provisioning Issues in Job Execution for Azure DevOps pipelines

Question

When any job runs in azure pipeline after 7 PM Pakistan Standard Time, I encounter an error that causes significant delays in job execution, approximately 20 to 25 minutes, or even leads to pipeline cancellations. Even I am using 2 Microsoft hosted agents for parallel jobs but they do not receive jobs

The error message is as follows:

##[warning]The remote provider has asked us to wait until 10/20/2023 2:38:07 PM before attempting to provision a resource. This will cause delays in the running of this request.

I have been experiencing a problem for the past 3 to 4 days, and it usually starts after 6-7 PM Pakistan Standard Time.

Answer 1

Go to the following pages to check whether there is "Business Hours" check set. Try to update the Start Time and End Time on the check, or delete the check:

• Project Settings > Repositories > select the repository which the pipeline runs for > Approvals and checks.

• Pipelines > Environments > select the environment which is used by the pipeline > Approvals and checks.

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EDIT:

Also go to Project Settings > Agent pools > select the pool which the pipeline jobs run on > Approvals and checks.