Support automatic retry of failed builds | Feature Requests

Support automatic retry of failed builds

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Aaron

It would be great if CircleCI allowed you to configure an automatic retry of a build upon failure. Ideally, you would be able to specify the max number of times you would like it to retry. 
Taken from: https://discuss.circleci.com/t/support-auto-retrying-of-failed-builds/13332/6
CCI-I-935

March 8, 2019

Minjun Seong

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Hi folks, truly appreciate your feedback and your patience. We are excited to announce that automatic workflow rerun is now available! 
Here is the documentation: https://circleci.com/docs/guides/orchestrate/automatic-reruns
Note: for those needing to rerun at a step level, automatic step rerun is currently in the works. We will keep you folks posted on its progress!

Autopilot

Merged in a post:

Job-triggered retries

j.green@jeremygreen.me.uk

I'd like job-level retries that are triggered by the job scripts themselves. E.g. if they detect that an android emulator or Xcode has failed.
E.g. by scraping specific error messages from the tools' output, or some kind of end-of-job ping for emulators.
Retrying for everything (https://circleci.com/changelog/automatic-retry-of-workflows-released/) masks occasional fails (something tests are specifically supposed to find for you). Retrying for specific things doesn't have this problem.
A job could trigger a retry be creating a file whose path is specified by a circleci-provided env. var. The reason could (optionally) be the file's content.

4 days ago

Neel Das

Also wish this supported rerun failed tests!

Minjun Seong

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Minjun Seong

Hi folks, exciting update! For customers needing a more granular control, we now support automatic step rerun to complement our existing workflow rerun feature.

Here is the documentation: https://circleci.com/docs/guides/orchestrate/automatic-reruns/

j.green@jeremygreen.me.uk

https://circleci.canny.io/api-feature-requests/p/allow-re-run-failed-tests-to-be-triggered-via-api is similar, but I wouldn't want to have to use an http API for this. Just like I wouldn't want to do that to indicate a job has failed.

j.green@jeremygreen.me.uk

Step-level equivalent would be less useful and more complex, so my suggestion is just for job.

Can implement as a loop in the step (until step timeouts are implemented). You start with fresh workspace/files if re-run a job, but don't if re-run a step.

j.green@jeremygreen.me.uk

https://circleci.canny.io/cloud-feature-requests/p/support-automatic-retry-of-failed-builds doesn't seem to mention this aspect of retries.

Viet Hoang

Any plans to support retries using

Rerun failed tests

cmprescott@incrediblehealth.com

Wish this feature could be set to use the

Rerun failed tests

instead of

Rerun workflow from failed

Minjun Seong

Hi folks, truly appreciate your feedback and your patience. We are excited to announce that automatic workflow rerun is now available! 
Here is the documentation: https://circleci.com/docs/guides/orchestrate/automatic-reruns
Note: for those needing to rerun at a step level, automatic step rerun is currently in the works. We will keep you folks posted on its progress!

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