Data engineering·Orchestration and running it in anger
someone marked the failed task as successful at 03:40 so the rest of the pipeline could proceed, and did not write down why.
Manual intervention
Also calledclearing a task, marking success, operator override
Overriding a pipeline's state by hand — clearing a task to re-run it, forcing a run past a failure, skipping a step. It is a necessary tool and an undocumented state change to a production system, and the two facts sit badly together. Treating it like a deploy — recorded, attributed, with a reason — is what stops next month's investigation ending at 'the data is odd for one day in March and nobody knows why'.