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ci: time limits and a non-blocking slow-CI budget report - #2425
Hard timeouts and a non-blocking budget report for the PR workflow.
The budget is reported, not enforced. Timeouts catch hangs only. A timeout is set well above the worst time that I measured, so ordinary variance never fails a PR.
It needs lint, minified-db, test-db, test-packages and test, with if: always().
It is continue-on-error: true. Every failure in the script, including reading the jobs, is a warning. The workflow cannot go red because of it.
It reads this run's job durations through gh api with GITHUB_TOKEN. It has actions: read for that call and issues: write for the tracking issue. Both are on this job only.
It emits a ::warning:: for each job over 10 minutes and for the whole workflow over 15 minutes.
For same-repo pull requests, it keeps one comment per PR on the "Slow CI triage" issue (label slow-ci), and creates the issue if it is missing. Reruns update that comment. A rerun within budget updates the comment to say so, so the comment never shows an older run. Fork pull requests keep the annotations and skip the issue step.
Cancelled jobs are not measured.
Scope of the 15-minute workflow figure: it covers only the jobs that the budget job waits on (lint, minified-db, test-db, test-packages, test). It does not cover preview, size, build-example, build-starter, or the E2E workflow (e2e-tests.yml), which is not measured here.
An agent periodically triages the "Slow CI triage" issue and turns its entries into cost-cut PRs.
Rule
The budget is reported, not enforced by failure. Timeouts catch hangs only. A job gets its timeout when it fits the budget, and the timeout sits well above the worst time.
Before and after job times
The before times come from the #2421 run (43296335665). A timeout does not change run time unless a job exceeds it.
The "after" column is from the earlier head, b5617da43. The latest head's run (49dab619d) is in progress.
Evidence
Law: the CI budget (every job under 10 minutes and the workflow under 15), reported and not enforced. No oracle is touched.
Reach, RED, GREEN, mutant: not applicable. This is a workflow change and a script.
Permissions:actions: read was added in response to review. The earlier run already read the jobs without it, because the repository is public. This run is the check on the explicit grant.
Script checks (fake gh, fixture jobs): offending run creates the issue and comment, and a comment update reports the same run. A within-budget run with an existing comment updates it to "within budget". A within-budget run with no issue creates nothing. A failing gh in the issue step, and a failing jobs read, both exit 0 with a warning.
Limits: the budget job's reporting depends on the gh CLI and the jobs API. The first run on each new head is the check. The E2E workflow and the preview, size and build jobs are not in the workflow figure.
This pull request and its description were written by Isaac.
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CI jobs now have time limits to prevent them from running indefinitely.
Slow CI runs are flagged in workflow summaries, with triage information updated on the associated pull request when applicable. Failures in the reporting process do not interrupt the workflow.
A job gets its timeout when it fits the budget. The DB groups and the
ivm-offline, sqlite-adapters and frameworks package groups now time out at
12 minutes. sqlite-core and collections keep the platform maximum until
their cost cuts land.
Co-authored-by: Isaac <no-reply@databricks.com>
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The workflow adds hard timeouts to CI jobs and runs a budget report after specified jobs. The report measures eligible job durations, emits warnings and a run summary, and can update a triage issue and PR comment.
Changes: CI timeouts and budget reporting
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Summary
Set CI timeouts and run budget reporting .github/workflows/pr.yml
The workflow sets timeouts for lint, database, package, preview, compressed-size, example-site, and starter-build jobs. The budget job runs after specified CI jobs, including when they fail, and invokes the report script with PR context.
Measure CI duration and report budget overruns scripts/ci-budget-report.mjs
The script loads job data from GitHub or a JSONL file, excludes the report job and ineligible jobs, and measures job durations and workflow span. It emits warnings for jobs over 10 minutes and workflow spans over 15 minutes, and can append a Markdown run summary.
Update CI triage issue and PR comment scripts/ci-budget-report.mjs
When a PR number is present and ISSUE_WRITABLE is true, the script finds or creates the labeled triage issue. It updates an existing marked comment or creates one when the run is over budget. Failures produce warnings.
Issue 2426: The issue describes the Slow CI triage issue and per-PR budget comments that this change creates and updates.
Sequence Diagram(s)
sequenceDiagram
participant Workflow as GitHub Actions workflow
participant Script as ci-budget-report.mjs
participant GitHubCLI as GitHub CLI
Workflow->>Script: Pass PR context and token
Script->>GitHubCLI: Fetch current run jobs
GitHubCLI-->>Script: Return job records
Script->>Script: Measure durations and generate warnings
Script->>Workflow: Append run summary
Script->>GitHubCLI: Find or create triage issue and update eligible PR comment
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Merge Risk: Low · up to 49dab
The slow-CI report may omit still-running jobs or include jobs its text says are excluded. It does not fail builds, so this is a minor accuracy issue to clean up, not a merge blocker.
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The description covers the change summary, timeout values, budget job behavior, before and after job times, and evidence. It does not fill the template's Oracle Coverage section, which is a required part of the template. It also does not complete the checklist or the Release Impact section. The author does state that no oracle is touched and that reach, RED, GREEN, and mutant checks do not apply. The description is mostly complete, but two template sections are missing.
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Complete the '🔬 Oracle Coverage' section. Name the coverage-map oracle owner for this change, or identify the relevant coverage-map entry. Explain why that owner cannot be extended, or why no practical oracle exists for this workflow and script change. Mark the checklist item for pnpm test as checked only if it was run locally, or state that it was not run. Mark one Release Impact option. Since this change is CI-only, the 'docs/CI/dev-only (no release)' option appears to apply.
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Hard timeouts are a backstop for hangs only: 20 minutes for the groups under
budget, 45 for Lint, 30 for sqlite-core and 60 for collections. The new
budget job reads this run's job durations, annotates every job over 10
minutes and a workflow over 15, and, for same-repo pull requests, keeps one
comment per PR on the 'Slow CI triage' issue (label slow-ci). It never fails.
Co-authored-by: Isaac <no-reply@databricks.com>
KyleAMathews
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ci: time-limit PR test jobs that fit the budget
ci: time limits and a non-blocking slow-CI budget report
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Review comments at @.github/workflows/pr.yml:
- Line 269: Update the budget job’s needs list to include preview, size,
build-example, and build-starter alongside its existing dependencies, so it
measures the completed workflow jobs. Preserve the budget job’s existing
always() behavior.
Review comments at @scripts/ci-budget-report.mjs:
- Line 231: Update main() to catch failures from loadJobs(args) and measure,
emit a warning, and exit the reporting path without failing the script;
separately catch step-summary write failures and emit a warning. Mark the budget
job as non-blocking with job-level continue-on-error so reporting errors do not
fail the workflow.
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second box. Fill in the after-times once the PR's CI run finishes.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Add the omitted workflow jobs to the budget job's needs.
The budget job waits only for lint, minified-db, test-db, test-packages, and test. preview, size, build-example, and build-starter have no needs, so they can still be running when the budget job starts. measure() drops any job without completed_at. An unfinished job is then missing from the per-job report. If it is the last job to finish, the whole-workflow total is also understated.
The script measures a 15-minute budget for the whole workflow. Nothing in the PR description or the script says these jobs are excluded on purpose, so the omission appears unintended.
Adding the jobs makes the budget job wait for the slowest of them, so the report arrives later. A skipped size job does not block the report, because the budget job uses if: always() and measure() ignores skipped jobs.
Suggested fix
--- "a/.github/workflows/pr.yml"+++ "b/.github/workflows/pr.yml"@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@
# where the token is writable; forks keep the annotations.
name: Slow CI budget
if: always()
- needs: [lint, minified-db, test-db, test-packages, test]+ needs: [lint, minified-db, test-db, test-packages, test, preview, size, build-example, build-starter]
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 10
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Review comment at @.github/workflows/pr.yml at line 269:
Update the budget job’s needs list to include preview, size, build-example, and build-starter alongside its existing dependencies, so it measures the completed workflow jobs. Preserve the budget job’s existing always() behavior.
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Keep budget reporting errors from failing the workflow.
main() calls loadJobs(args) outside any try block. If gh api fails, the exception ends the script before it prints a report. The step summary write has the same unprotected path. The budget job also has no job-level continue-on-error, so either failure marks the workflow run as failed. The job comment says the job never fails the workflow.
Catch these reporting errors and emit warnings. Also mark the job as non-blocking.
Suggested fix
function main(args) {
- const result = measure(loadJobs(args))+ let result+ try {+ result = measure(loadJobs(args))+ } catch (error) {+ console.log(+ `::warning title=Slow CI budget::could not load jobs: ${String(error.message).split(`\n`)[0]}`,+ )+ return+ }
for (const line of annotations(result)) console.log(line)
- if (process.env.GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY)- appendFileSync(- process.env.GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY,- summaryMarkdown(result, { runUrl, prNumber }),- )+ if (process.env.GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY) {+ try {+ appendFileSync(+ process.env.GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY,+ summaryMarkdown(result, { runUrl, prNumber }),+ )+ } catch (error) {+ console.log(+ `::warning title=Slow CI budget::could not write the step summary: ${String(error.message).split(`\n`)[0]}`,+ )+ }+ }
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Review comment at @scripts/ci-budget-report.mjs at line 231:
Update main() to catch failures from loadJobs(args) and measure, emit a warning, and exit the reporting path without failing the script; separately catch step-summary write failures and emit a warning. Mark the budget job as non-blocking with job-level continue-on-error so reporting errors do not fail the workflow.
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The budget job is continue-on-error, and every failure in the script becomes a
warning, including reading the jobs. It gets actions: read for the jobs API.
A run within budget updates an existing PR comment instead of leaving an
older over-budget one. Cancelled jobs are excluded from the measure. Under-budget
jobs that had no timeout get the 20-minute backstop. Lint keeps 45 minutes: its
worst observed run was 22m36s, and twice that is 45.
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Review comments at @scripts/ci-budget-report.mjs:
- Line 117: Update the job selection used by measure() so it only measures jobs
in an explicit eligible set matching the documented 15-minute budget scope; do
not rely on the workflow needs list to filter loadJobs() results. Exclude
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Filter measurements to the documented job scope.
loadJobs() retrieves all workflow jobs, and measure() includes every completed job except the report, skipped jobs, and cancelled jobs. If Preview finishes in 12 minutes before the report starts, the report includes it and can flag an overrun despite this exclusion statement. Completed build jobs also affect the workflow span.
Pass an explicit set of eligible jobs to the script and filter before measurement. The workflow's needs list controls scheduling, not the records returned by loadJobs().
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Review comment at @scripts/ci-budget-report.mjs at line 117:
Update the job selection used by measure() so it only measures jobs in an explicit eligible set matching the documented 15-minute budget scope; do not rely on the workflow needs list to filter loadJobs() results. Exclude preview, size, build, and E2E jobs, while preserving the existing exclusions for the report, skipped, and cancelled jobs.
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Hard timeouts and a non-blocking budget report for the PR workflow.
The budget is reported, not enforced. Timeouts catch hangs only. A timeout is set well above the worst time that I measured, so ordinary variance never fails a PR.
minified-db,test-db(db-1, db-2, db-3, db-replay),test-packages(ivm-offline, sqlite-adapters, frameworks),preview,size,build-example,build-starter.test-packagessqlite-core. The worst run was 12.8 min.test-packagescollections. The worst run was 31.7 min.lint. The worst run was 22.6 min (fix(db): replace an obsolete ordered repair before a resumed step #2419), so 45 is twice that. The reviewer's suggested 32 would be only 1.4 times the worst run.Slow CI budget):needslint, minified-db, test-db, test-packages and test, withif: always().continue-on-error: true. Every failure in the script, including reading the jobs, is a warning. The workflow cannot go red because of it.gh apiwithGITHUB_TOKEN. It hasactions: readfor that call andissues: writefor the tracking issue. Both are on this job only.::warning::for each job over 10 minutes and for the whole workflow over 15 minutes.slow-ci), and creates the issue if it is missing. Reruns update that comment. A rerun within budget updates the comment to say so, so the comment never shows an older run. Fork pull requests keep the annotations and skip the issue step.e2e-tests.yml), which is not measured here.Rule
The budget is reported, not enforced by failure. Timeouts catch hangs only. A job gets its timeout when it fits the budget, and the timeout sits well above the worst time.
Before and after job times
The before times come from the #2421 run (43296335665). A timeout does not change run time unless a job exceeds it.
The "after" column is from the earlier head,
b5617da43. The latest head's run (49dab619d) is in progress.Evidence
actions: readwas added in response to review. The earlier run already read the jobs without it, because the repository is public. This run is the check on the explicit grant.gh, fixture jobs): offending run creates the issue and comment, and a comment update reports the same run. A within-budget run with an existing comment updates it to "within budget". A within-budget run with no issue creates nothing. A failingghin the issue step, and a failing jobs read, both exit 0 with a warning.ghCLI and the jobs API. The first run on each new head is the check. The E2E workflow and the preview, size and build jobs are not in the workflow figure.This pull request and its description were written by Isaac.
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