glab-job

name	glab-job
description	Work with individual CI/CD jobs including view, retry, cancel, trace logs, and download artifacts. Use when debugging job failures, viewing job logs, retrying jobs, or managing job execution. Triggers on job, CI job, job logs, retry job, job artifacts.

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 <job-id>

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-id>    (job logs)
      ├─ glab ci retry <job-id>    (retry one job)
      ├─ glab job view <job-id>    (job details)
      └─ glab job artifact <ref> <job> (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:

   glab ci view  # Shows all jobs, highlights failures
   

2. View job logs:

   glab ci trace <job-id>
   

3. 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