I am not sure if this is wikidata or deployment related: https://logstash.wikimedia.org/goto/29bb2ebcf0ccd9e90e4f7773fdc666dd
They are caused by a job, but no deployments or external causes found at the time. They look like this:
{ "_index": "logstash-2017.01.30", "_type": "mediawiki", "_id": "AVnvSXzq3-sTQj-LhJL3", "_score": null, "_source": { "message": "DatabaseMysqlBase::lock failed to acquire lock 'wikidatawiki-activeusers'\n", "@version": 1, "@timestamp": "2017-01-30T12:11:27.000Z", "type": "mediawiki", "host": "mw1166", "level": "WARNING", "tags": [ "syslog", "es", "es" ], "channel": "DBQuery", "normalized_message": "DatabaseMysqlBase::lock failed to acquire lock 'wikidatawiki-activeusers'\n", "url": "/rpc/RunJobs.php?wiki=wikidatawiki&type=recentChangesUpdate&maxtime=60&maxmem=300M", "ip": "127.0.0.1", "http_method": "POST", "server": "127.0.0.1", "referrer": null, "wiki": "wikidatawiki", "mwversion": "1.29.0-wmf.9", "reqId": "WI8tbQpAID4AAByFT3UAAABY" }, "fields": { "@timestamp": [ 1485778287000 ] }, "sort": [ 1485778287000 ] }