[Question]: How to investigate task failure that has no information to go by

[olstakh]

Task name

Azure CLI

Task version

2.251.1

Environment type (Please select at least one enviroment where you face this issue)

• Self-Hosted
• Microsoft Hosted
• VMSS Pool
• Container

Azure DevOps Server type

dev.azure.com (formerly visualstudio.com)

Azure DevOps Server Version (if applicable)

No response

Operation system

Windows

Question

We have a simple AzureCli task that runs dotnet test command

  - task: AzureCLI@2
    displayName: ${{ parameters.displayName }}
    retryCountOnTaskFailure: ${{ parameters.retryCount }}
    timeoutInMinutes: ${{ parameters.timeoutInMinutes }}
    inputs:
      azureSubscription: "..."
      addSpnToEnvironment: true
      scriptType: batch
      scriptLocation: inlineScript
      inlineScript: >
        dotnet test ${{ parameters.projects }}
        ${{ parameters.additionalTestOptions }}

In certain circumstances - we see the following failure for this task:

Passed!  - Failed:     0, Passed:  1031, Skipped:    50, Total:  1081, Duration: 3 m 51 s - Microsoft.Bot.Engine.ScenarioTests.dll (net8.0)
##[debug]Agent environment resources - Disk: D:\ Available 48304.17 MB out of 131070.00 MB, Memory: Used 17936.00 MB out of 65535.00 MB, CPU: Usage 25.00%

Attachments:
  D:\a\_work\_temp\02143b08-237b-449b-80b2-4bc984d1b804\cloudtest_1b352d4ec000000_2025-02-20.03_38_31.coverage

##[debug]Process exited with code 1 and signal null for tool 'D:\a\_work\_temp\azureclitaskscript1740022675643.bat'
##[debug]STDIO streams have closed and received exit code 1 and signal null for tool 'D:\a\_work\_temp\azureclitaskscript1740022675643.bat'
##[debug]task result: Failed
##[error]Script failed with exit code: 1
##[debug]Processed: ##vso[task.issue type=error;source=TaskInternal;correlationId=f72a37c9-0f2e-4a2d-a6bc-57c3994843b1;]Script failed with exit code: 1
##[debug]Processed: ##vso[task.complete result=Failed;]Script failed with exit code: 1

The only potentially useful information i see in these logs is source=TaskInternal;correlationId=f72a37c9-0f2e-4a2d-a6bc-57c3994843b1, which is something im not aware where to look for. I've attempted to search fo this correlationId in cluster('1es.kusto.windows.net').database('AzureDevOps') cluster, but was unsuccessful.

Is there any parameter i can set for this task, or any other means i can use to figure out why the task is failing after successful test run? I have nothing to go on at this point

[shapeh]

We see a similar issue.

It started yesterday (Apr 10, 2025). We committed some code, and then the pipelines start as normal. However, one pipeline is failing all of a sudden without us changing any of the underlying yaml/bicep files.

From the job log:

Task : Azure CLI
Version : 2.251.1

##[debug]Agent environment resources - Disk: D:\ Available 11111.70 MB out of 14334.00 MB, Memory: Used 2526.00 MB out of 7167.00 MB, CPU: Usage 77.00%
##[debug]keepAzSessionActive=false
##[debug]addSpnToEnvironment=false
##[debug]exec tool: C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe
##[debug]arguments:
##[debug] D:\a_temp\azureclitaskscript1744352767110.sh
"C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe" D:\a_temp\azureclitaskscript1744352767110.sh
##[debug]Agent environment resources - Disk: D:\ Available 11111.70 MB out of 14334.00 MB, Memory: Used 2510.00 MB out of 7167.00 MB, CPU: Usage 77.00%
ERROR: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

##[debug]Process exited with code 1 and signal null for tool 'C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe'
##[debug]STDIO streams have closed and received exit code 1 and signal null for tool 'C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe'
##[debug]task result: Failed
##[error]Script failed with exit code: 1
##[debug]Processed: ##vso[task.issue type=error;source=TaskInternal;correlationId=3c9f637d-764f-4037-a025-b79589639921;]Script failed with exit code: 1
##[debug]Processed: ##vso[task.complete result=Failed;]Script failed with exit code: 1

Snippet from the yaml file:

- task: AzureCLI@2
  inputs:
    azureSubscription: 'service-connection-example'
    scriptType: 'bash'
    scriptLocation: 'inlineScript'
    cwd: '$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/pipelines/ExampleProject'
    inlineScript: |
      # changed from piping parameters to file to this. 
      az deployment group create \
      --resource-group rg-example \
      --template-file ../../bicep/main.bicep \
      --parameters ../../bicep/main.bicepparam