provide reason/error message for a build failure inside the current pipeline

[vanous]

Clear and concise description of the problem

As a last step of my pipeline (in case of failure) i would like to report the error message of the failed build without having to wrap every single step command. My reporting pipeline step would look something like this:

  ...
  on-error:
    commands:
      - ./report_failure.sh "CI failed" CI_JOB_ERROR_MESSAGE
    when:
      status: failure

Suggested solution

The CI_JOB_ERROR_MESSAGE or the like is what i am asking for.

Alternative

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Additional context

Thank you!

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[6543]

tldr: step fail but pipeline should pass

because error is handled via on-error step

[vanous]

Thank you. I presume we mean the same thing... another way to tldr it:

we would like to have the reason for the failed status, in order to be able to send/log it to an external system