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title: "Pipeline jobs whose latest run failed | Metacenta"
description: "From your OpenLineage events: jobs whose most recent recorded run failed or aborted, and which datasets that leaves stale or partly written."
url: "https://metacenta.com/rules/lineage-job-failing"
updated: "2026-10-14"
tokens: 438
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Execution health · rule lineage-job-failing

# Pipeline jobs whose latest run failed

A Metacenta review checks this under the rule **Every job's latest recorded run succeeded**. Everything below applies whether or not you ever commission one.

## What this rule checks

From an export of OpenLineage events, this rule flags each job whose most recent recorded run ended in `FAIL` or `ABORT`. It names the datasets that job writes.

## Why it matters

Whatever the job produces may be stale or partly written. Anything that reads those datasets carries the problem forward.

## How to fix it

**Fix the jobs whose latest run failed.** Check whether the job has run successfully since the export. If not, fix it before anything reads its outputs.

## When it is fine to leave

If the job has succeeded since the export was taken, the finding is out of date. Send a newer export, or tell us, and it comes out of your report.

## What we need to check it

An export of OpenLineage events, such as a JSON Lines file from your lineage backend. The finding describes the export, so it is only as recent as the events in it.

[Ask about a review](https://metacenta.com/enquire?src=rule-lineage-job-failing&via=md)

## Related pages

- [dbt tests that are failing](https://metacenta.com/rules/test-failing)
- [dbt models that failed to build](https://metacenta.com/rules/node-build-error)
- [dbt models skipped behind a failure](https://metacenta.com/rules/run-blocked-cascade)
- [dbt table models dominating build time](https://metacenta.com/rules/run-slow-full-rebuild)
- [A sample review, as a client reads it](https://metacenta.com/sample)
- [All published rules](https://metacenta.com/rules)
- [How a review is assessed](https://metacenta.com/standard)