diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/openqa_lab_workers b/inventory/group_vars/openqa_lab_workers
index f66276254f..4f0ae0f733 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/openqa_lab_workers
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/openqa_lab_workers
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ openqa_env: staging
 # staging, we live ON THE EDGE (radical guitar riff)
 openqa_repo: updates-testing
 
+# debugging for an annoying test incompletion issue
+openqa_scratch: ["72418949"]
+
 # testing a feature from a branch
 openqa_createhdds_branch: desktop-upgrade-aarch64