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Find out why pipeline failure was not seen or reacted upon for the past days

I haven't received a mail despite having "Failed pipeline" checked for the project https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/osd-deployment. I have also checked my Outlook mail account directly. Maybe other teams members have the same problem. (The same counts for https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa btw.)

mkittler wrote:

Find out why pipeline failure was not seen or reacted upon for the past days

I haven't received a mail despite having "Failed pipeline" checked for the project https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/osd-deployment. I have also checked my Outlook mail account directly. Maybe other teams members have the same problem. (The same counts for https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa btw.)

Right. That would address the last point "Find out why pipeline failure was not seen". I can confirm that I have received an email for both the failure on Wednesday as well as today morning.

• AC1: I guess the "Failed pipeline" was just pre-checked in the menu for customizing notifications and I was previously watching any activity. However, when using the customized setting with everything checked it also doesn't work for me.
• AC2: Executing rpm --rebuilddb on arm-1 worked. Considering the machine sometimes randomly crashes it isn't really a surprise to find a broken rpm database.

mkittler wrote:

Not sure what to do about it. The notifications just don't seem to work for me.

I have the following ideas:

• Ask from multiple team members if it works for them (works for me)
• Simulate failures in a fork and check if notifications work from there
• Crosscheck if you receive emails from other repos. Do you get emails if CI checks in your own MRs fail?
• Ask EngInfra admins if they can check if you should receive an email

Further ideas of the ticket:

• Detect the RPM failure and apply the database rebuild automatically

ARM workers are handled, deployment continued, AC2 covered. Leaves AC1

For me it doesn't work for other repositories as well. The last mail I've received was "salt-states-openqa | Pipeline #82985 has been fixed for firewall | 44894364 in !378" from 15.10.20 17:27.

• Recommended settings as suggested on the call: Settings > Notifications > Global notification level > Watch
• A failed pipeline looks something like Failed pipeline for break-not-master | osd-deployment | ff035118. I produced this by opening an MR with broken YAML (https://gitlab.suse.de/cdywan/osd-deployment/-/pipelines/159292)

cdywan wrote:

So Marius seems to be getting notifications but they're just filtered out into a folder usually.
The idea to shutdown arm3 was not very fruitful as it recovered perfectly w/ no alerts or failed pipelines. So I'm still not sure how to really test this 🤔️

well, you need to shut down a salt controlled host and trigger a gitlab CI pipeline within osd-deployment