Cleanup

Jobs cut off by a restart, and how long finished jobs are kept

  1. Abandoned jobs
  2. Job retention

Abandoned jobs

A running job is tracked by the AnsibleForms process that started it. When that tracking stops, the job is marked abandoned:

  • At startup, jobs still running or aborting are marked abandoned; the log shows Abandoned <n> jobs.
  • Every hour, jobs that started more than a day ago and are still running are marked abandoned.

An abandoned playbook may have run partly. Check the managed hosts before you relaunch it; see A job shows the status abandoned.

Job retention

Jobs are kept until they are deleted, unless the administrator sets a retention period.

With JOB_RETENTION_DAYS set, a nightly task (at 2:30) deletes the finished jobs, with their output and steps, that ended more than that many days ago. It only removes jobs with status success, failed, warning, aborted, rejected or abandoned, so running jobs and jobs waiting for approval are kept however old they are. The default, 0, keeps every job.