Feedback issue: CI log timestamps

Feedback summary

• Would be nice to have control over the following in the UI logs:
  • Timestamp appearance (include date, milliseconds, etc.)
  • Timezone the timestamp appears in
  • Show/hide timestamps entirely

Action that GitLab took:

• We updated the timestamp format to only be HH:MM:SS. This change was implemented in GitLab 17.5: merge request !164595 (merged).
• We'll make it clear this is in UTC-only: Reduce repetitive Z on job log timestamps (#476166 - closed)

Background

In Add timestamps to the CI logs for each line in ... (#202293) • Unassigned • 18.6 • At risk we are improving the CI log rendering experience by adding a feature to generate timestamps for each line in the CI log output. That feature was released behind a feature flag. We'd like to obtain feedback on the feature before enabling it by default.

How to enable this for your jobs:

• Make sure your runners are updated to at least version 17.0 to get the most recent UI updates of this feature.
• Enable FF_TIMESTAMPS by following these instructions for your whole pipeline or specific jobs. (Note: If you're using gitlab.com, some hosted runners may not support timestamps yet and need to be updated on GitLab's side).
  • Self-managed users 👉 One extra step! Enable the parse_ci_job_timestamps feature flag for your instance.

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