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Mark pipeline as failed

The Mark as Failed button in the pipeline execution details page is used to mark any running pipeline as failed. Selecting this button sends a failure interrupt to all currently executing stages of the pipeline, triggering their failure strategies.

Requirements​

  • You must have Execute pipeline permission to be able to mark a pipeline as failed.
  • You must enable Allow users to mark a running Step as failure in your Harness account's default settings.
  • This feature is behind the feature flag CDS_MARK_PIPELINE_AS_FAILURE. Contact Harness Support to enable the feature.

Marking a pipeline as failed​

You can use the Mark as Failed option to mark a running pipeline as failed.

After marking a pipeline as failed, Harness fails running and queued stages. Completed stages aren't marked as failed.

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If a pipeline is configured with failure strategy like Ignore Failure or Retry, the execution might continue even after Mark as Failure is sent.

Difference between marking a stage as failed and marking a pipeline as failed​

You can mark an entire pipeline or a single stage as failed.

Here's the difference between these options:

  • If there is only one stage running when you mark either the stage or pipeline as failed, both options have the same impact.
  • If parallel stages are running, then marking the pipeline as failed stops all running parallel stages. Marking one stage as failed only stops that stage.