Jobs never sent to instance

I’m working to migrate from a docker machine setup to the docker autoscaling.

I’ve setup a new instance in aws and installed the gitlab runner. I have registered the instance and I’m using the iam policy to allow access to ec2 as you recommend.

I have configured my asg to use spot instances. Changing the idle count in the gitlab runner toml has allowed me to verify that the runner can communicate with the asg and adjust the desired count.

I have been using the debug flag to try and determine what’s going on but I think im missing some logs somewhere.

When I submit a job it never gets executed even if there is an instance available. What should be logged when the runner picks up a job? Is there any logging anywhere that will give me more details on why the job is not executed? I don’t see any errors.

I’m really struggling to follow the documentation loads of the links refer back to the machine pages and some of the auto scale pages even refer to the machine setup so it’s hard to find the right info