1. A method for execution by computing device within a dispersed storage network (DSN), the method comprising: monitoring processing status of a plurality of pending DSN access requests, wherein a pending DSN access request of the plurality of pending DSN access requests includes a set of access requests regarding a set of encoded data slices, wherein the set of access requests is sent to dispersed storage (DS) units of the DSN, wherein less than a desired number of the DS units have favorably responded to the set of access requests, wherein a data segment of data is dispersed storage error encoded to produce the set of encoded data slices, wherein the desired number of DS units corresponds to a decode threshold number of encoded data slices of the set of encoded data slices, and wherein the decode threshold number of encoded data slices are required to recover a data segment; interpreting the processing status of the plurality of pending DSN access requests to detect a processing anomaly of one of the plurality of pending DSN access requests; reprioritizing further processing of at least one of: the one of the plurality of pending DSN access requests having the processing anomaly; or another one or more of the plurality of pending DSN access requests; and sending notice of the reprioritized further processing to one or more of the DS units.