datasets_job_status.md

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title: Understanding job statuses
description: Job statuses will help you understand the stages of your work.
area: datasets
layout: faq
box_type: tip
contributors: [jennaj, garimavs]

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Compare the color of your datasets to these job processing stages.

• Grey: The job is queued. Allow this to complete!

• Yellow: The job is executing. Allow this to complete!

• Green: The job has completed successfully.

• Red: The job has failed. Check your inputs and parameters with Help examples and GTN tutorials. Scroll to the bottom of the tool form to find these.

• Light Blue: The job is paused. This indicates either an input has a problem or that you have exceeded the disk quota set by the administrator of the Galaxy instance you are working on.

• Grey, Yellow, Grey again: The job is waiting to run due to admin re-run or an automatic fail-over to a longer-running cluster.

{% icon galaxy-info %} Don't lose your queue placement! It is essential to allow queued jobs to remain queued, and to never interrupt an executing job. If you delete/re-run jobs, they are added back to the end of the queue again.

Related FAQs

• [Troubleshooting errors]({% link faqs/galaxy/analysis_troubleshooting.md %})

• [My jobs aren't running!]({% link faqs/galaxy/analysis_jobs_not_running.md %})

• [Extended Help for Differential Expression Analysis Tools]({% link faqs/galaxy/analysis_differential_expression_help.md %})