Understanding the run queue and stage pills

# Understanding the run queue and stage pills A cloud run moves through stages, shown as **pills** on the queue: 1. **Queued** — accepted, waiting for capacity. 2. **Provisioning** — spinning up the cloud load generators. 3. **Setup** — pulling your test and data onto the machines. 4. **Create Data** — generating and splitting the per-user test data. 5. **Smoke** — a tiny pre-flight run that must pass before load (catches a broken journey before you spend on full load). 6. **Running** — the real load test. 7. **Analysing** — crunching results into the report. 8. **Completed** — (or completed-partial / failed / aborted). If a run stops at **Smoke**, the journey failed pre-flight — open the logs (Admin / Approver role) to see why before re-running.