# Troubleshooting & Support

If you need support, there is a full **knowledge base** and **ticketing site** here:

[https://support.sandboxstudiosoftware.com/](https://support.sandboxstudiosoftware.com/)

Below are some common problems identified during installation.

# Investigating accounts in Quarantine state

When the Sandbox Studio solution detects an issue with one of its sandbox accounts, the account is moved to a `Quarantine` state and an email is sent to the solution administrators indicating that action be taken to resolve the account’s quarantine status.

<p class="callout warning">Note: If the account clean-up mechanism fails to automatically delete resources at the end of an active lease, you might have accounts in a Quarantine state. We highly recommend investigating quarantined accounts as quickly as possible, as these accounts can incur costs for resources running inside these accounts.</p>

##### To resolve the quarantined status:

<div class="markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color" dir="ltr" id="bkmrk-log-in-to-the-web-ui">- Log in to the Web UI as an Administrator, and from the left, under **Administration**, select **AWS Accounts**.
- Verify the accounts in <span style="background-color: #ecf0f1;">Quarantine</span> Status, and decide whether to clean up the account and return to the account pool, or to eject the account from the solution.
    
    
    - To clean-up the account and return it to the account pool, select the account, and under **Actions**, select **Retry cleanup**.
    - To eject the account, select the account, and under **Actions**, select **Eject account.** For more information, refer to Uninstall the solution section.

</div>If the account is in quarantine if the retry clean up failed, refer to the Resolving cleanup failures section.

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# Resolving clean-up failures

If the cleanup process fails to completely clean an account at the end of a lease, Sandbox Studio will move the account into a Quarantine state, and email the Administrators notifying them of the issue.

To resolve an account that has failed clean-up:

<div class="orderedlist" id="bkmrk-log-in-to-the-web-ui">1. Log in to the Web UI as an Administrator, and from the left, under **Administration**, select **AWS Accounts**.
2. Confirm the account that has failed the clean-up process. You can preview the error by hovering your mouse over the "<span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);">Clean-up error</span>" text[![image.png](https://docs.sandboxstudiosoftware.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/p5limage.png)](https://docs.sandboxstudiosoftware.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/p5limage.png)

</div>For a detailed view of the error, you need to access the AWS Console and look at the "AccountCleaner" step functions

[![image.png](https://docs.sandboxstudiosoftware.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/Mmnimage.png)](https://docs.sandboxstudiosoftware.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/Mmnimage.png)

##### See log details:

<div class="orderedlist" id="bkmrk-log-in-to-the-aws-co">1. Log in to the AWS Console using the **Hub account**, and navigate to the **CloudWatch &gt; Logs Insights** page.
2. From the right pane, under Sample queries, select the **SS-Sandbox** group, and from the dropdown, choose the `AccountCleanupLogs` saved query, and **Apply**.

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3\. Change the time frame to match the execution you want to get the logs for:

[![image.png](https://docs.sandboxstudiosoftware.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/uG3image.png)](https://docs.sandboxstudiosoftware.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/uG3image.png)

4\. Update the query to copy the last cleanup process ID:

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<p class="callout info">You can get the cleanup process ID from the '**Last Cleanup ReferenceID**'.</p>

Select **Run query** to see related events. The log information is displayed under the *Logs* tab.