# Commit messages not showing in Web UI or in API

**URL:** <https://discuss.circleci.com/t/commit-messages-not-showing-in-web-ui-or-in-api/4571>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Tags:** github, git\
**Created:** [June 14, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/commit-messages-not-showing-in-web-ui-or-in-api/4571 "2016-06-14T18:19:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![gmccreight](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/gmccreight/32/1638_2.png) [@gmccreight](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/gmccreight)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/commit-messages-not-showing-in-web-ui-or-in-api/4571/1 "2016-06-14T18:19:59Z")

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For our builds, only a minority of the commit messages are showing up in the Web UI and API. This started happening sometime around 2-5 pm last Thursday. This is causing our developers confusion, and our build system relies on the commit messages provided by the API. I reached out to [support@circleci.com](mailto:support@circleci.com) on Friday and [sayhi@circleci.com](mailto:sayhi@circleci.com) yesterday, but haven’t heard anything.

Our commit messages are auto-generated for our mirror repositories, so I started to suspect that the length of them might be the issue, but was able to disprove that with the following set of tests. As you can see, I did get a failure (the commit message not showing) at 101 characters, but then was able to get a pass with it, too, later on.

```
Mirror of catalog/search at #xxxxxxx: 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 1 (79 chars)
pass

Mirror of catalog/search at #xxxxxxx: 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 (87 chars)
pass

Mirror of catalog/search at #xxxxxxx: 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 (97 chars)
pass

Mirror of catalog/search at #xxxxxxx: 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123 (101 chars)
fail

Mirror of catalog/search at #xxxxxxx: 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 (100 chars)
pass

Mirror of catalog/search at #xxxxxxx: 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123 (101 chars)
pass ?!?

```

Any chance you guys could look into this? When we click through the UI to the commit itself on Github the message is there.

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**Author:** ![gmccreight](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/gmccreight/32/1638_2.png) [@gmccreight](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/gmccreight)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/commit-messages-not-showing-in-web-ui-or-in-api/4571/2 "2016-06-14T22:29:52Z")

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Looks like this has been subsequently fixed. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/original/3X/5/1/511608acda8e85906e15909b57bd0a46c1dbe291.png) [@system](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/commit-messages-not-showing-in-web-ui-or-in-api/4571/3 "2018-06-18T11:34:14Z")

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