Merge request widget "could not retrieve pipeline status" error should be operationally observable
Sometimes the merge request widget will return a response like this:
Could not retrieve pipeline status. For troubleshooting steps, read the documentation.
When this happens, it seems that although this is a user-impacting error, it is not visible from an operational perspective:
- All HTTP calls association with the polling request returned successful HTTP error codes
- As far as I know, no log messages or sentry exceptions are logged when this error is generated
Since this has an impact on user-experience, we should, as operators of GitLab.com be able to determine when this is happening and (if possible) why.
At present I don't think this is possible.
Slack thread: https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/C101F3796/p1586860799050700 (while it lasts)
Another Slack thread: https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/C0SFP840G/p1590158858098700
Edited by Fabio Pitino