Problem: task log is no longer searchable

[macau23]

Issue

It used to be that I could open the task log and ctrl+f in Firefox to find the line matching what I am looking for. It would highlight the match.
The browser search no longer finds anything outside of the visible viewport.

Impact

Web-Frontend (what users interact with)

Installation method

Package

Database

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Browser

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Semaphore Version

2.15.0

Ansible Version

Logs & errors

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Manual installation - system information

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Configuration

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Additional information

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[macau23]

Same for semaphore-2.16.18-1.x86_64

Can I suggest this be bumped? Not being able to find anything in the logs makes using semaphore much less valuable!

[macau23]

Workaround: go to raw logs view and search there.

Edit: this will not work. There are no raw logs for a running task.

[macau23]

Workaround 2:

Visit /api/project/PROJECT_ID/tasks/TASK_ID/raw_output and refresh to get newest output. Then Ctrl+F will work.

[macau23]

raw_output is also not a good workaround, because there are no timestamps in that log.

[macau23]

@fiftin Please could the log files be searchable and not just viewable! Not being able to search in an active log during a run is very painful!

[fiftin]

raw_output is also not a good workaround, because there are no timestamps in that log.

Can adding timestamps to raw output be workaround the problem?

[macau23]

I think the user expects ctrl+f to search on the page. I think that should work!

But as a workaround timestamped raw logs would work, but:

• there is no raw logs link during an active run
• semaphore is adjusting the timezone for logs based on the client (i.e. not UTC like on the server)

[fiftin]

@macau23 virtual scrolling used for task log viewing because huge output can't be rendered on the page without lags. So, standard search doesn't work. There are 2 options:

1. raw log
2. custom search - we will implement it but I don't know when