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Show failed jobs in MR pipelines tab part 3

What does this MR do and why?

Add failed jobs tract to MR pipelines tab

Behind a FF we add the ability to see failed jobs trace directly inside the pipelines tab of a MR. Failed jobs are only fetched when clicking on the button to expand the table. Then each failed jobs is fetched and can be clicked on to expand the job log and see why the job failed.

IMPORTANT This will only get a UX review in the very last MR because before that, it is not enough to be properly tested.

This is part 3 of 5 in a series of MR!

In this MR, we introduce 2 key aspects:

  1. We render individual job details
  2. We allow to view job logs! They can all be toggled individually.

MR table:

Title Link
Introduce FF and base component !122914 (merged)
Fetch failed jobs !122917 (merged)
Display each failed job in a row with log 👈🏻 You are here
Add action button to each job row !123086 (merged)
Add polling when the widget is opened

this is behind a disabled feature flag: ci_job_failures_in_mr.

Preview

If you are wondering what it will look like after all the MRs are done, here is a quick preview of what the PoC looked like:

Screen_Recording_2023-06-05_at_3.18.34_PM

Screenshots or screen recordings

Before After
Screenshot_2023-06-07_at_10.49.11_AM Screenshot_2023-06-07_at_10.49.11_AM
Screenshot_2023-06-07_at_10.53.20_AM Screenshot_2023-06-07_at_10.59.57_AM

Screen_Recording_2023-06-07_at_11.04.44_AM

How to set up and validate locally

  1. Enable feature flag in rails console `Feature.enable(:ci_job_failures_in_mr)
  2. Make sure to have a functioning runner
  3. We need a MR with jobs failures. An easy to do so is to make a merge request on the ci config file and add explicit failures
  4. Navigate to Build -> Pipeline Editor
  5. Change your config to include jobs failures like so:
my_failed_job:
  script: exit 1
  1. Create a merge request with that change
  2. Navigate to the Merge request page
  3. Go to the pipelines page
  4. Click on the "Show failed jobs"
  5. Notice the new UI
  6. Click on any failed job
  7. Notice that the job log expands!

MR acceptance checklist

This checklist encourages us to confirm any changes have been analyzed to reduce risks in quality, performance, reliability, security, and maintainability.

Edited by Frédéric Caplette

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