When i use gitlab analytics chart and hover over a bar, there is full with number. Intuitively I would guess it is the total time, but it does not match height of the bar. What does it mean?
Edit to add more context. This happens when i use parallel build in gradle, if i don't use it, the value matches the height of the bar.
This value appears to be the number of minutes in the pipeline(s) associated with that commit.
It's unclear to me whether this is intended to be shown or not. It's also unclear why the value you see doesn't seem to match the bar. On my self-hosted GitLab instance as well as on GitLab.com I don't see this popup in the CI/CD analytics, so I'm not able to reproduce the behavior in your screenshot. If you are using an older version of self-hosted GitLab, perhaps this was an issue that was previously fixed.
You can find the source code that describes this value in the GitLab repository, in pipeline_charts.vue#L197-198:
timesChartTransformedData() {
return [
{
name: 'full',
data: this.mergeLabelsAndValues(this.timesChartData.labels, this.timesChartData.values),
},
];
},
Digging deeper, timesChartData.values maps to this.analytics.pipelineTimesValues and timesChartData.labels maps to this.analytics.pipelineTimesLabels. These values are described in code as an array of integers and an array of strings representing the commit short SHAs -- as seen in this mock data.
At runtime, this data is populated from the GraphQL PipelineAnalytics pipelineTimesValues and pipelineTimesLabels fields. The descriptions provided for these fields are not particularly helpful:
| Field Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| pipelineTimesLabels | [String!] | Pipeline times labels. |
| pipelineTimesValues | [Int!] | Pipeline times. |
You can use a GraphQL query to see this data. Using gitlab-org/gitlab as an example, the following query:
{
project(fullPath: "gitlab-org/gitlab") {
fullPath
pipelineAnalytics {
pipelineTimesLabels
pipelineTimesValues
}
}
}
Produces the following output (at time of writing):
{
"data": {
"project": {
"fullPath": "gitlab-org/gitlab",
"pipelineAnalytics": {
"pipelineTimesLabels": [
"836b4ef6",
"673ade85",
"051de030",
"d30d33de",
"05208bea",
"e72cb586",
"556589fe",
"89dec139",
"95ee5946",
"48c43849",
"31858115",
"ffd81a94",
"b475ccde",
"03d0dd43",
"f4258d22",
"4faeb29f",
"68a4263e",
"230bf3c2",
"2ecfdfc1",
"0fa4751d",
"f1c7d634",
"05208bea",
"95ee5946",
"8628de54",
"89dec139",
"31858115",
"33b2fe92",
"ffd81a94",
"30f303fd",
"403400be"
],
"pipelineTimesValues": [
0,
6,
0,
0,
0,
0,
1,
0,
0,
12,
27,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0
]
}
}
}
}
If I spot-check the commit 673ade85 (the second label) should line up to the times data point 6 (the second value). And 556589fe (the seventh label) should map to the value 1 (the seventh value).
To the best of my ability, the data seen on these two commits seems to support the assertion that the value maps to the number of minutes in the pipeline(s):
Pipeline for 673ade85 lasted 6 minutes:
Pipeline for 556589fe lasted 1 minute:
