DASF-R-13.4 — Resource Overload

Source: official compendium, AI Lifecycle Risks, row 68. Snapshot: 2026-10-22; source revision: DASF v 3.0.

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Risk mechanism

Resource Overload targets the computational, memory, and service capacities of AI systems to degrade performance or cause failures, exploiting their resource-intensive nature.

Applicability

Agentic AI

Blank source cells remain null (unspecified); a source “No” means this default filter omits the risk; it does not establish absence in your architecture. Combine every deployment pattern in the system.

Impacts described by the source

AI system:

• Loss of AI System Availability • Disruption of Business Operations and Service Availability

Business:

• Financial Loss • Breach of Service Level Agreement • Direct Business Interruption • Customer Retention

Controls

• DASF-31 — Secure model serving endpoints
• DASF-34 — Run models in multiple layers of isolation
• DASF-36 — Set up monitoring alerts
• DASF-39 — Platform security — Incident Response Team
• DASF-55 — Monitor audit logs
• DASF-60 — Rate limit number of inference queries

Source control guidance

• DASF 31: Secure model serving endpoints • DASF 34: Run models in multiple layers of isolation on Mosaic AI Model Serving cloud scale infrastructure. Deploy resource management controls, implement serverless adaptive scaling mechanisms, and establish quotas. Monitor system load in real-time to detect and mitigate overload attempts. • DASF 36: Set up monitoring alerts to automatically detect and alert on resource exhaustion thresholds — CPU, memory, and request queue depth — enabling rapid response before a degradation becomes an outage • DASF 39: Platform security — Incident Response Team to respond to resource overload events and coordinate mitigation of sustained DoS attempts • DASF 55: Monitor audit logs to detect unusual high-frequency request patterns indicative of a resource overload or denial-of-service attack • DASF 60: Rate limit number of inference queries. Implement AI rate-limiting policies to restrict high-frequency task requests per agent session, controlling access levels and volume at the endpoint level on a per-user and per-endpoint basis.

Additional controls to consider: Please see the companion compendium document for a collection of third-party tools.

Investigate and verify

Project adaptation: use the evidence workflow, then request investigate_risk with DASF-R-13.4. It returns the mechanism above, control-specific evidence requests, proposed tests and remediation acceptance criteria. Until evidence is supplied, the result is unverified. Use the finding template to record a concrete observation and residual risk.

Source-reported framework mappings

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Related

• Component 13
• Catalog