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Chapter 26. Supported attributes for custom notifications

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Learn about the list of supported job attributes and the proper syntax for constructing the message text for notifications.

The following are the supported job attributes:

  • allow_simultaneous - (boolean) Indicates if multiple jobs can run simultaneously from the job template associated with this job.
  • controller_node - (string) The instance that manages the isolated execution environment.
  • created - (datetime) The timestamp when this job was created.
  • custom_virtualenv - (string) The custom virtual environment used to execute the job.
  • description - (string) An optional description of the job.
  • diff_mode - (boolean) If enabled, textual changes made to any templated files on the host are shown in the standard output.
  • elapsed - (decimal) The elapsed time in seconds that the job has run.
  • execution_node - (string) The node that the job executes on.
  • failed - (boolean) True if the job failed.
  • finished - (datetime) The date and time the job finished execution.
  • force_handlers - (boolean) When handlers are forced, they run when notified even if a task fails on that host. Note that some conditions, such as unreachable hosts can still prevent handlers from running.
  • forks - (int) The number of forks requested for this job.
  • id - (int) The database ID for this job.
  • job_explanation - (string) The status field to indicate the state of the job if it was not able to run and capture stdout.
  • job_slice_count - (integer) If run as part of a sliced job, this is the total number of slices (if 1, job is not part of a sliced job).
  • job_slice_number - (integer) If run as part of a sliced job, this is the ID of the inventory slice operated on (if not part of a sliced job, attribute is not used).
  • job_tags - (string) Only tasks with specified tags execute.
  • job_type - (choice) This can be run, check, or scan.
  • launch_type - (choice) This can be manual, relaunch, callback, scheduled, dependency, workflow, sync, or scm.
  • limit - (string) The playbook execution limited to this set of hosts, if specified.
  • modified - (datetime) The timestamp when this job was last modified.
  • name - (string) The name of this job.
  • playbook - (string) The playbook executed.
  • scm_revision - (string) The scm revision from the project used for this job, if available.
  • skip_tags - (string) The playbook execution skips over this set of tags, if specified.
  • start_at_task - (string) The playbook execution begins at the task matching this name, if specified.
  • started- (datetime) The date and time the job was queued for starting.
  • status - (choice) This can be new, pending, waiting, running, successful, failed, error, or canceled.
  • timeout - (int) The amount of time, in seconds, to run before the task is canceled.
  • type - (choice) The data type for this job.
  • url - (string) The URL for this job.
  • use_fact_cache - (boolean) If enabled for the job, automation controller acts as an Ansible Fact Cache Plugin at the end of a playbook run to the database and caches facts for use by Ansible.

  • verbosity - (choice) 0 through 5 (corresponding to Normal through WinRM Debug).

    • host_status_counts (The count of hosts uniquely assigned to each status)

      • skipped (integer)
      • ok (integer)
      • changed (integer)
      • failures (integer)
      • dark (integer)
      • processed (integer)
      • rescued (integer)
      • ignored (integer)
      • failed (boolean)

    • summary_fields:

      • inventory

        • id - (integer) The database ID for the inventory.
        • name - (string) The name of the inventory.
        • description - (string) An optional description of the inventory.
        • has_active_failures- (boolean) (deprecated) flag indicating whether any hosts in this inventory have failed.
        • total_hosts - (deprecated) (int) The total number of hosts in this inventory.
        • hosts_with_active_failures - (deprecated) (int) The number of hosts in this inventory with active failures.
        • total_groups - (deprecated) (int) The total number of groups in this inventory.
        • groups_with_active_failures - (deprecated) (int) The number of hosts in this inventory with active failures.
        • has_inventory_sources - (deprecated) (boolean) The flag indicating whether this inventory has external inventory sources.
        • total_inventory_sources - (int) The total number of external inventory sources configured within this inventory.
        • inventory_sources_with_failures - (int) The number of external inventory sources in this inventory with failures.
        • organization_id - (id) The organization containing this inventory.
        • kind - (choice) (empty string) (indicating hosts have direct link with inventory) or smart

      • project

        • id - (int) The database ID for the project.
        • name - (string) The name of the project.
        • description (string) An optional description of the project.
        • status - (choices) One of new, pending, waiting, running, successful, failed, error, canceled, never updated, ok, or missing.
        • scm_type (choice) One of (empty string), git, hg, svn, insights.

      • job_template

        • id - (int) The database ID for the job template.
        • description - (string) The optional description of the project.
        • status - (choices) One of new, pending, waiting, running, successful, failed, error, canceled, never updated, ok, or missing.

      • job_template

        • id- (int) The database ID for the job template.
        • name- (string) The name of the job template.
        • description- (string) An optional description for the job template.

      • unified_job_template

        • id - (int) The database ID for the unified job template.
        • name - (string) The name of the unified job template.
        • description - (string) An optional description for the unified job template.
        • unified_job_type - (choice) The unified job type, such as job, workflow_job, or project_update.

      • instance_group

        • id - (int) The database ID for the instance group.
        • name- (string) The name of the instance group.

      • created_by

        • id - (int) The database ID of the user that launched the operation.
        • username - (string) The username that launched the operation.
        • first_name - (string) The first name.
        • last_name - (string) The last name.

      • labels

        • count - (int) The number of labels.
        • results - The list of dictionaries representing labels. For example, {"id": 5, "name": "database jobs"}.

You can reference information about a job in a custom notification message using grouped curly brackets {{ }}. Specific job attributes are accessed using dotted notation, for example, {{ job.summary_fields.inventory.name }}. You can add any characters used in front or around the braces, or plain text, for clarification, such as "#" for job ID and single-quotes to denote some descriptor. Custom messages can include a number of variables throughout the message: 

{{ job_friendly_name }} {{ job.id }} ran on {{ job.execution_node }} in {{ job.elapsed }} seconds.

The following are additional variables that can be added to the template:

  • approval_node_name - (string) The approval node name.
  • approval_status - (choice) One of approved, denied, and timed_out.
  • url - (string) The URL of the job for which the notification is emitted (this applies to start, success, fail, and approval notifications).
  • workflow_url - (string) The URL to the relevant approval node. This allows the notification recipient to go to the relevant workflow job page to examine the situation. For example, This node can be viewed at: {{workflow_url }}. In cases of approval-related notifications, both url and workflow_url are the same.
  • job_friendly_name - (string) The friendly name of the job.

  • job_metadata - (string) The job metadata as a JSON string, for example: 

    {'url': 'https://automationcontroller.example.com/$/jobs/playbook/13',
 'traceback': '',
 'status': 'running',
 'started': '2019-08-07T21:46:38.362630+00:00',
 'project': 'Stub project',
 'playbook': 'ping.yml',
 'name': 'Stub Job Template',
 'limit': '',
 'inventory': 'Stub Inventory',
 'id': 42,
 'hosts': {},
 'friendly_name': 'Job',
 'finished': False,
 'credential': 'Stub credential',
 'created_by': 'admin'}
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