How to deal with tons of "no progress has been made during state machine apply" logs

Last updated: August 11, 2026

Problem Statement

Occasionally Redpanda broker complains this warning repeatedly:

WARN 2024-06-29 01:28:28,613 [shard 1:main] raft - [group_id:24, {kafka_internal/tx/22}] state_machine_manager.cc:371 - no progress has been made during state machine apply. Current next offset: 4339146

 

Solution

This is a spurious log entry and it is safe to ignore the warning. Eventually Redpanda should be able to read the entry mentioned in the log line.

 

Notes

This applies to all released versions as of now.

  • 24.1.x
  • 23.3.x
  • 23.2.x