Return job failure reason in API responses (!74888) · Merge requests · GitLab.org / GitLab

Albert Vaca Cintora requested to merge albertvaka/gitlab:job-api-return-failure-reason into master Nov 19, 2021

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The Job entity now exposes a failure_reason field for failed jobs. This is useful when measuring reliability, to tell apart infra errors from script errors.

Fixes: #33552 (closed)

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GETting https://<your gitlab instance>/api/v4/projects/1/jobs?scope[]=failed now returns the new field for failed jobs:

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