1149168 - Please make the Treeherder log viewer useful for developers

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1147958

(Tree Management :: Treeherder, defect)

Description

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Here is the use case.  You get pinged by a sheriff because you have broken something.  They give you a link.  You open the link, and you get what's in the screenshot.

Now that is not exactly useful.  You have no idea what platform this log is on, what kind of build, what changeset, etc.  Basically the log viewer is barely usable for anything other than looking at the failure messages, which is very rarely enough information to act on anything.

The current workarounds include either going to https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=mozilla-inbound and try to decipher where the log came from, or bother the sheriffs with the above questions.

Comment 2

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

This is specifically for the test failures on Taskcluster-based builds. Taskcluster isn't reporting the proper information to Treeherder (or Treeherder isn't looking in the right place for Taskcluster stuff). Buildbot-based failures still report everything correctly.

Comment 3

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

I can assure you that's not the intended log viewer view.

The log link in question (to save others having to type manually - please paste directly in bugs if possible in the future :-)) is:
https://treeherder.mozilla.org/logviewer.html#?job_id=8230078&repo=mozilla-inbound

The problem is taskcluster pretends to submit buildbot-like logs (in lieu of bug 1080760) but for these specific jobs, the log format is broken.

Things that could/should be fixed:
* Taskcluster: actually create valid logs (bug 1147958; the main issue here short term)
* Treeherder: refuse to accept invalid logs or display a more appropriate message (need bug filed)
* Treeherder: show actual job info, not crap from the log header in the log viewer (bug 1060482 / bug 1057341)
* Treeherder: allow non-buildbot submitters to provide summaries directly and not require them to provide a log that we then parse ourselves (bug 1080760)

I've set a reminder for me to file a bug for #2 when I'm back from vacation.

Comment 4

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

Filed bug 1149182 for #2 because I'm bored and Ed has enough to do when he gets back...

Comment 5

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Superstar - thank you! :-)