Is it possible to see who canceled the Gitlab pipeline?

Question

I can see who creates the Gitlab pipeline/job, however, is it possible to see who canceled it? Even better to receive a notification if it was canceled by someone.

As shown from the screenshot, the job is canceled, but not by me, and the output log is empty.

BTW, I checked the other job contains log and canceled while running, but still couldn't find who canceled it.

You can do that only by looking at the logs. – djuarezg Apr 04 '19 at 09:00 — djuarezg, Apr 04 '19 at 09:00
What if there is no log? @djuarez – Chuan Apr 04 '19 at 09:03 — Chuan, Apr 04 '19 at 09:03

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 04 '19 at 09:46

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You cannot know this unless you check the logs.

There is an open issue about this: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/31679

answered Apr 04 '19 at 09:46

djuarezg

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slowko · Answer 2 · 2019-04-04T13:10:33.710

This is possible via the GitLab jobs API, on Linux with a simple curl:

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <personal-access-token>" https://gitlab/api/v4/projects/<project_id>/jobs/<job_id> | jq .

You can get the project_id from the projects main page, the job_id from the CI/CD -> jobs page and you can create a personal-access-token from the profile settings page, ensuring it has API permissions.

If you want to retrieve all jobs with cancelled status:

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <personal-access-token>" https://gitlab/api/v4/projects/<project_id>/jobs?scope[]=canceled | jq .

The user JSON object in the output indicates who cancelled the job, eg:

"user": {
    "id": 77,
    "name": "John Doe",
    "username": "jdoe",
    "state": "active",
    "avatar_url": "https://gitlab/uploads/-/system/user/avatar/77/avatar.png",
    "web_url": "https://gitlab/jdoe",
    "created_at": "2017-08-14T13:53:37.796+01:00",
    "bio": "",
    "location": "",
    "public_email": "",
    "skype": "",
    "linkedin": "",
    "twitter": "",
    "website_url": "",
    "organization": ""
  }

Cheers

S

Thanks for your answer! I can retrieve some job info via the query, however, there is no information about who canceled the job. — Chuan, Apr 04 '19 at 12:09
This is the user who triggered the pipeline, not the one who cancelled it — jaudo, Jan 18 '22 at 08:38

Is it possible to see who canceled the Gitlab pipeline?

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