gmodena added a comment.

  Hi,
  
  Thanks for reaching out. Roughly speaking, we start to throttle connections 
(for bots that respect maxlag) when the change propagation lag between 
wikidata.org and the WDQS secondary store is higher than 10 minute for a 
sustained amount of time. A typical reason for this lag increase is when WDQS 
is put under heavy read load, and writes can't  keep up.
  
  WDQS has been under heavy load starting Thursday, April 2.  This had a 
cascading effect on lag and bot throttling 
(https://grafana.wikimedia.org/goto/dfhtdl5py8qv4f?orgId=1). We have alerting 
and operational 
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_Query_Service/Runbook/High_replication_lag_and_query_timeout>
 processes 
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_Query_Service/Runbooks/ElevatedMaxLagWDQS>
 in place to mitigate this issue. We've been tracking load since early alerts 
started to fire on Thursday. Unfortunately, we had several actors concurrently 
putting WDQS under strain for the past 5 days, that defied automated 
remediation we have in place and required manual intervention. This situation 
resulted in bot throttling kicking off more than we would have liked. We've 
seen spikes in load and lag also this morning CEST 
(https://grafana.wikimedia.org/goto/dfid0zv54dqm8e?orgId=1), as we keep 
monitoring the situation.

TASK DETAIL
  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T421642

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