Blog: New UI to visualize your pipelines and logs

New UI to visualize your pipelines and logs Why a new UI? Features Roadmap Demo Next steps Welcome to the Jenkins X Pipelines Visualizer : a new open-source read-only UI for Jenkins X, with a very specific goal and scope: visualize the pipelines and logs. This project was started at Dailymotion and quickly shared with the Jenkins X community. There is already the Octant-based UI , so why a new UI? The main reason is that Octant “is an application and is intended as a single client tool and at this time there are no plans to support hosted versions of Octant” - see this thread on the Octant github repository for more information and details. So while Octant answers to a lot of use-cases, there is one for which it is not suited: quickly printing the build logs on a browser, for a specific pipeline. We want to be able to click on a link from a Pull/Merge Request, and get the pipeline logs. This is the specific use-case covered by the Pipelines Visualizer. We want to keep it small, focused, and fast. It’s a read-only UI, so there won’t be “actions” to trigger a pipeline - because it can already be done using “chatops” commands in the Pull Request for example. But there are a few interesting features already: first, it’s very fast to get the logs. Much faster than the old JXUI. it can retrieve the logs from pipelines that have been garbage-collected - if you configure the URL of the buckets where the logs are stored. it has URLs compatible with the old JXUI - so it’s very easy to replace the old JXUI with this new UI and keep all the links working.