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ArgoCD: application stuck in unknown

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Problem statement: An application in ArgoCD that was previously running smoothly has suddenly started to fail. Its status has changed to “Unknown”. The “Refresh” button is grayed out in the Argo web UI.

I found the following works in this scenario, which is typically a transient issue:

  • restart the argo server
  • restart the argo repo server

In terms of commands:

shell
% kubectl rollout restart deployment argocd-server -n argocd
% kubectl rollout restart deployment argocd-repo-server -n argocd