glab-job

glab job

Work with individual CI/CD jobs.

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Quick start

# View job details
glab job view <job-id>

# Download job artifacts
glab job artifact main build-job

# Retry a failed job
glab ci retry <job-id>

View job logs

glab ci trace

## Decision: Pipeline vs Job Commands?

What level are you working at? ├─ Entire pipeline (all jobs) │ └─ Use glab-ci commands: │ ├─ glab ci status (pipeline status) │ ├─ glab ci view (all jobs in pipeline) │ ├─ glab ci run (trigger new pipeline) │ └─ glab ci cancel (cancel entire pipeline) │ └─ Individual job └─ Use glab-job or glab ci job commands: ├─ glab ci trace (job logs) ├─ glab ci retry (retry one job) ├─ glab job view (job details) └─ glab job artifact (job artifacts)

**Use `glab ci` (pipeline-level) when:**
- Checking overall build status
- Viewing all jobs in a pipeline
- Triggering new pipeline runs
- Validating `.gitlab-ci.yml`

**Use `glab job` (job-level) when:**
- Debugging a specific failed job
- Downloading artifacts from a specific job
- Retrying individual jobs (not entire pipeline)
- Viewing detailed job information

## Common workflows

### Debugging a failed job

1. **Find the failed job:**
   ```bash
   glab ci view  # Shows all jobs, highlights failures

1. View job logs:

   glab ci trace <job-id>
   

2. Retry the job:

   glab ci retry <job-id>
   

Working with artifacts

Download artifacts from specific job:

glab job artifact main build-job

Download artifacts from latest successful run:

glab job artifact main build-job --artifact-type job

Job monitoring

Watch job logs in real-time:

glab ci trace <job-id>  # Follows logs until completion

Check specific job status:

glab job view <job-id>

Related Skills

Pipeline operations:

• See glab-ci for pipeline-level commands
• Use glab ci view to see all jobs in a pipeline
• Script: scripts/ci-debug.sh for automated failure diagnosis

CI/CD configuration:

• See glab-variable for managing job variables
• See glab-schedule for scheduled job runs

Command reference

For complete command documentation and all flags, see references/commands.md.

Available commands:

• artifact - Download job artifacts
• view - View job details
• Most job operations use glab ci <command> <job-id>:
  • glab ci trace <job-id> - View logs
  • glab ci retry <job-id> - Retry job
  • glab ci cancel <job-id> - Cancel job