Support operations · rolling 12 weeks

Backlog is flat, but ageing

Volume is under control. The risk is the tail: tickets older than 30 days have doubled while the headline count barely moved.

Refreshed 11 Sep 2026, 06:00
Source: ServiceDesk export
Open tickets
— broadly flat
Median age
▼ worsening
Over 30 days
the actual problem
Breached SLA
of filtered set
01

Queues

Exhibit 1

Open tickets by queue

Infrastructure holds a third of the backlog and nearly all of the ageing. Filter to it and the median age doubles.

Ticket Queue Owner Age, days Reopens Trend SLA

Source: ServiceDesk export 11 Sep 2026 06:00. Age is calendar days since creation. Tickets pending customer response are excluded from SLA breach counts, which is why the two columns disagree.

02

Shape of the backlog

Exhibit 2a

Age distribution

Exhibit 2b

Open tickets, closed weeks only

Open Over 30 days

Week 37 is in progress and excluded — a partial week beside closed ones reads as a sudden drop.