Fetch a GitLab CI job's log output and retry or cancel jobs via the REST API, including listing a pipeline's jobs filtered by status.
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Documented steps
Obtain the job_id, e.g. from a pipeline's job listing.
GET https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/:id/pipelines/:pipeline_id/jobs?scope[]=pending&scope[]=running to list a pipeline's jobs, optionally filtered by one or more scope values (job status); jobs are sorted by ID descending and retried jobs are excluded unless include_retried=true.
GET https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/:id/jobs/:job_id/trace to retrieve the job's log; the endpoint serves the raw log file body directly (200) or returns 404 if the job or log doesn't exist.
Use --globoff with curl (or equivalent encoding in other clients) when passing repeated scope[]=value query params so the shell doesn't mangle the brackets.
POST https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/:id/jobs/:job_id/retry to retry a single job; optionally pass job_inputs (GitLab 18.10+) to override input values on retry.
POST https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/:id/jobs/:job_id/cancel to cancel a single job; pass force=true to force-cancel a job stuck in the "canceling" state.
Docs: https://docs.gitlab.com/api/jobs/
Known gotchas
The trace endpoint returns the raw log content directly as the response body, not a JSON object — treat it as text/binary output, not JSON.
scope must be passed as repeated scope[]=value query parameters (array); curl users need --globoff to avoid shell glob expansion of the brackets.
Prior to GitLab 17.0 the retry endpoint does not support trigger jobs.
List-jobs endpoints support both offset-based and keyset-based pagination; keyset is strongly recommended for consecutive pages.
retry/cancel act on a single job_id, not an entire pipeline — to cancel every job in a pipeline use the pipeline cancel endpoint instead.
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