Automated GitLab Failed Pipeline Triage
Every morning, WebRun opens GitLab, reads the pipelines that ran overnight across your projects, groups the failures by branch and failing job, notes the commit and its author, opens a Trello card for each break, and messages the team the branches still red.
How do I triage failed GitLab pipelines every morning?
WebRun opens GitLab every morning, reads the pipelines that ran overnight, and groups the failures by branch and failing job with the commit, the author, and a one line error summary. It opens a Trello card per break and messages the engineering group the branches still red, so a broken default branch is fixed first.
- A red default branch is known before the team builds on top of it
- Each failure arrives with its branch, job, commit, and author attached
- Repeat failures update one card instead of flooding the board
Built for engineering leads · DevOps teams · software teams · platform engineers
What does WebRun do on every run?
The exact actions WebRun takes, in order - in plain language, so you can adjust anything.
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WebRun signs in and gets to work
Opens
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GitLab - group the overnight failures
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WebRun opens GitLab to group the overnight failures. - Open GitLab and go through the projects on your watchlist
- Read the pipelines that ran since the last check and pick out the failed ones
- For each failure capture the branch, the failing job and stage, the commit, and its author
- Read the tail of the job log and summarise the error in one line
- Separate failures on default and release branches from failures on feature branches
- Note any merge request blocked by the failure
- Read only. Never retry a job, revert a commit, or merge anything
Done when Every overnight failure is grouped by branch with its failing job and likely author.
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Trello - open a card per break
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WebRun opens Trello to open a card per break. - Open one card per distinct failure on your engineering board
- Title it with the project, the branch, and the failing job
- Put the error summary, the commit, the author, and the pipeline link in the description
- Put default and release branch breaks in a priority list at the top of the board
- Update an existing card rather than opening a duplicate for a repeat failure
Done when Every break has a card with its branch, job, and likely author.
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WhatsApp - message the red branches
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WebRun opens WhatsApp to message the red branches. - Message the engineering group the branches still red this morning
- Lead with the default branch if it is broken, then release branches
- Give the count of feature branch failures in one line rather than listing them all
- Link the Trello board for the detail
Done when The team knows before standup which branches are red.
How is each run configured?
Secure by default
Connect once, stays signed in
WebRun signs in once and keeps each session in a persistent environment, so every run picks up right where it left off.
Every action is checked against this policy before it runs.
Questions, answered
Will it retry jobs or revert commits?
No. WebRun reads pipeline results and opens cards. Retrying a job, reverting a commit, and merging anything all stay with your engineers, so nothing in the repository changes on its own.
Will it name and blame people?
It names the commit author on the card so the person with the context sees it first. The message to the group leads with branches and jobs, not individuals.
Does it open a card for every rerun of the same failure?
No. WebRun updates the existing card when the same job fails again on the same branch, so one break is one card until it goes green.
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