How to clean System Errors in Bamboo from command line
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Summary
Bamboo offers a way to remove System Errors from the Administration page. For more information, please refer to How to bulk clear System Errors from build plans.
If the error list is too large, this page can timeout, blocking the user from the possibility to delete them.
Environment
Any Bamboo supported version.
Diagnosis
When trying to open the page "System errors", the loading of the page will fail and the user won't reach the option to delete them.
Solution
When removing errors, Bamboo calls the endpoint "removeAllErrorsFromLog.action". This article offers a way to reach the endpoint from command line instead, avoiding the timeout.
For this approach we don't have an official REST endpoint, therefore we need to disable XSRF protection in order to make it work.
To proceed, please do the following:
- Disable XSRF protection:
- Visit "Administration -> Security Settings".
- Scroll to the end, click on edit.
- Disable the check " Enable XSRF protection".
- Save
- Then proceed to make the call. The command is
curl --user USER:PASSWORD -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" BASE_URL/removeAllErrorsFromLog.action(make sure you put your credentials and update the Base URL)
- Once this is over, you can re-enable XSRF protection.