Nobody noticed that the last successful extension-indexer run was in August 2023

[daniel-beck]

Service(s)

infra.ci.jenkins.io

Summary

As in the title.

While #3746 documents the poor content, there's no mention of a lack of updates. During development of the fix jenkins-infra/backend-extension-indexer#95 I found that the last successful deployment to reports.jenkins.io was on 2023-08-06 (downloaded the zip as reference, those are the file modification times).

This might have been caused by Artifactory configuration changes as I guess in jenkins-infra/backend-extension-indexer#95.

Note that jenkins-infra/backend-extension-indexer#96 fixed the project, so the current content is from up to date now. But someone should have noticed, and it looks like we're lacking the monitoring to ensure that.

Reproduction steps

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[daniel-beck]

I am told by @dduportal that they were aware internally, so that's good.

[MarkEWaite]

I am told by @dduportal that they were aware internally, so that's good.

I like the idea of monitoring the health of the extension indexer and think we should do something similar for the Pipeline steps doc generator.

For historical purposes, infra team meetings noted issues with the backend extension indexer:

• 11 Jul 2023 - original issue reported by James
• 19 Sep 2023 - further issue discussion