We’re excited to announce that the new Pipelines page is now live in the CircleCI web app. The new Pipelines page brings faster page loads and additional filter controls to help you find and manage your pipelines more easily.
Existing users will be switched to the new design automatically. If you’d like to switch back to the previous version, toggle off “Updated view” in the top right of the Pipelines page.
Run into any issues or have feedback? Let us know in the comments below.
Looks good, and things do seem quicker!
I was trying to find job IDs for pipeline runs–we use them for a few different parts of our deployment/tracking process, generally copying out both the IDs and the workflow/job name. They used to be displayed prominently on the Pipelines page, but with the new view, they’re gone. The options the in-page AI assistant pointed me at to find them were…less than stellar. The legacy /jobs page is harder to get to (and since things aren’t grouped by pipeline, correlation is mostly manual and time-based, which seems error-prone) and using the API is fiddly/overkill for this.
How long is the old Pipelines page going to be accessible? More long-term, is there any way to customize rows in the new Pipelines UI so they’d include job IDs (or other info for a given build) or to have that included on the detail/Workflows view?
Thanks!
My feedback:
I have a couple suggestions to make the new pipelines page more useable.
First, the old pipeline page made it easy to see at a glance whether a job is recent (like from an hour ago) versus from a day ago. This is because it showed things like “1h ago” (see screenshot below).
However, with the new page, it’s not so easy to know because you have to know the current date, the current time, make sure the right time zone is set (e.g. that it’s not showing UTC), and then make sure you’re using the start rather than end time, and then do a mental comparison between the displayed and current time. See screenshot below.
Thus, it would be nice if the new page also showed a “friendly” version of the start time. Perhaps it could show this on the far left of the display next to the friendly version of the duration.
I would also like to echo a previous comment that it would be nice if the new page could auto-expand to display the jobs. My pipelines pretty much all have just one workflow and one job, so having to click to expand and display the job just creates more friction. Maybe you could have an “auto-expand” option for the pipeline display. Even if a pipeline has more than one job (e.g. two jobs), I could see some people wanting it to auto-expand. Thank you.
Hi @cjerdonek, thanks for sharing this feedback with us! We have display options that should help with a couple of the pain points you mentioned, specifically auto-expanding workflows and jobs, and an easier frame of reference for start time.
Auto-expand: In the display options dropdown (top right, just above the Start/Finish column), you can set your auto-expand preference. Since most of your pipelines have one workflow and one job, the “Workflow & jobs” option should work well for you. It will default to auto-expanding all workflows and jobs for each pipeline.
Relative start time: Under the Start/Finish column option, you can switch the display to relative timestamps, so you’ll see something like “1 hr ago” instead of having to compare against the current time. If you’d still like to see the exact timestamp, just hover over the Start/Finish value.
“Learn more” link: Thanks for flagging that the “Learn more” link on pipeline warnings is missing from the new page. We’ll put out a fix for that shortly, and I’ll follow up here once it’s live.
Let us know if those display options work for you or if anything is still missing. Thanks again for the detailed feedback!
This is awesome. Thanks, @laureenma! I didn’t know about those display options. I tried them out, and it seems like they fit my needs exactly.
