Builds can now emit metrics that Hydra will store in its database and
render as time series via flot charts. Typical applications are to
keep track of performance indicators, coverage percentages, artifact
sizes, and so on.
For example, a coverage build can emit the coverage percentage as
follows:
echo "lineCoverage $pct %" > $out/nix-support/hydra-metrics
Graphs of all metrics for a job can be seen at
http://.../job/<project>/<jobset>/<job>#tabs-charts
Specific metrics are also visible at
http://.../job/<project>/<jobset>/<job>/metric/<metric>
The latter URL also allows getting the data in JSON format (e.g. via
"curl -H 'Accept: application/json'").
In the dashboard and on the job page, indicate whether the job appears
in the latest jobset eval. That way, the user gets some indication if
a job has accidentally disappeared (e.g. due to an evaluation error).
Currently the dashboard allows users to get a quick overview of the
status of jobs they're interested in, but more will be added,
e.g. viewing all your jobsets or all jobs of which you're a
maintainer.
It redirects to the latest successful build from a finished
evaluation. This is mostly useful for the Nixpkgs/NixOS mirroring
script, which need the latest finished evaluation in which some
aggregate job (such as ‘tested’ in NixOS) succeeded.
The "all" channel fundamentally doesn't scale, because it needs
to fetch N builds from the database (where N is potentially a very
large number), then check whether they are still valid. And it's
not very useful anyway.
doesn't scale), and include links for jobset/job specific pages.
The main page now lists the projects.
* Overview pages for jobsets and jobs.
* Links to the channels.
* Jobsets are now defined and edited in a separate action.
