Hi folks
We are on Gitlab Premium.
My scenario:
- We have gitlab pipelines running multiple jobs.
- Some of these jobs upload data to external database/dashboarding app.
- These dashboards are used by reviewers to check for regressions, improvements etc.
- To view the dashboards for the job, the reviewers manually navigate go to the job’s dashboard and fill out details like Job ID and other params etc.
- URL to the dashboards look like:
http://link.to.my.app/<dash-id>?job-id={$CI_JOB_ID};paramX=foo;paramY=100. i.e. this can be easily generated after the job is executed.
my goal is to provide an easy way for reviewes to access all the dashboards of the pipeline/jobs
Few options I could think of so far:
Option 1:
- Simplest option is to add the generated dashboard URL to each job’s console output.
- This kind of work, but still the reviewers need to go to each job and see if they have dashboards.
Option 2:
- In the jobs, automatically post back a comment to the Merge Request using gitlab API. The comment contains the friendly job name, and URL to the dashboard.
- This works, but the dashboards are hard to find when interleaved with other comments.
Option 3:
- In the jobs, update the Merge Request description by appending the dashboards URLs
- This may works, and keeps all dashboard links in one place as part of the MR description.
- but the downside is that we might accidentally overwrite the MR description (esp. if there’s “mid-air collision” where the MR author is editing the MR description while the jobs are trying to write to it.)
Help!!
None of the above options are ideal. I was wondering if you had other suggestions on how best to implement this. My gitlab knowledge is very limited.
Thanks