It will be nice to always run the artifacts-collector plugin, even if previous plugin have been failed.

• Execution

  Wed, 11 Jan 2023 17:24:28 -03> Global Status: running
  JOB_NAME                           | STATUS     | RESULTS    | PROGRESS                  | MESSAGE                                           
  05-openshift-cluster-upgrade       | complete   |            | 0/0 (0 failures)          | waiting for post-processor...                     
  10-openshift-kube-conformance      | complete   |            | 345/345 (2 failures)      | waiting for post-processor...                     
  20-openshift-conformance-validated | running    |            | 2860/3240 (31 failures)   | status=running                                    
  99-openshift-artifacts-collector   | running    |            | 0/0 (0 failures)          | status=waiting-for=20-openshift-conformance-validated=(0/-380/0)=[33/1080]
  Wed, 11 Jan 2023 17:24:38 -03> Global Status: running
  JOB_NAME                           | STATUS     | RESULTS    | PROGRESS                  | MESSAGE                                           
  05-openshift-cluster-upgrade       | complete   |            | 0/0 (0 failures)          | waiting for post-processor...                     
  10-openshift-kube-conformance      | complete   |            | 345/345 (2 failures)      | waiting for post-processor...                     
  20-openshift-conformance-validated | failed     |            | 2860/3240 (31 failures)   | waiting for post-processor...                     
  99-openshift-artifacts-collector   | failed     |            | 0/0 (0 failures)          | waiting for post-processor...                     
  Wed, 11 Jan 2023 17:24:48 -03> Global Status: running
  JOB_NAME                           | STATUS     | RESULTS    | PROGRESS                  | MESSAGE                                           
  05-openshift-cluster-upgrade       | complete   |            | 0/0 (0 failures)          | waiting for post-processor...                     
  10-openshift-kube-conformance      | complete   |            | 345/345 (2 failures)      | waiting for post-processor...                     
  20-openshift-conformance-validated | failed     |            | 2860/3240 (31 failures)   | waiting for post-processor...                     
  99-openshift-artifacts-collector   | failed     |            | 0/0 (0 failures)          | waiting for post-processor...               

• 'plugin' container logs plugin 99-openshift-artifacts-collector: the execution ran correctly (data collected)

[must-gather      ] OUT namespace/openshift-must-gather-rmsrk deleted
Reprinting Cluster State:
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ClusterID: 4e878853-63f5-43da-be49-ecb387daebdd
ClusterVersion: Stable at "4.11.19"
ClusterOperators:
        All healthy and stable
/plugin
#./executor.sh:154>  Plugin executor finished. Result[0]
#./runner.sh:17>  20230111-202652> [runner] Plugin finished. Result[0]
#./runner.sh:17>  20230111-202652> [runner] Saving results triggered. Slowing down...
/tmp/sonobuoy/results /plugin
#./runner.sh:17>  20230111-202657> [runner] Results saved at /tmp/sonobuoy/results/done=[/tmp/sonobuoy/results/raw-results.tar.gz]
 

• But the 'sonobuoy-worker' container, responsible to stream the results to the server, was reporting errors: It seems the server was busy to receive/save the results and lose the request (REST API issues), then the pod recycle was called losing the results

Error: gathering results: error encountered dialing aggregator at https://[10.128.2.12]:8080/api/v1/results/global/99-openshift-artifacts-collector: Put "https://[10.128.2.12]:8080/api/v1/results/global/99-openshift-artifacts-collector": dial tcp 10.128.2.12:8080: connect: connection refused
Usage:
  sonobuoy worker global [flags]Flags:
  -h, --help   help for globalGlobal Flags:
      --level level   Log level. One of {panic, fatal, error, warn, info, debug, trace} (default info) 

• Logs from the server (sonobuoy aggregator)

  time="2023-01-11T20:24:25Z" level=info msg="received request" client_cert="[99-openshift-artifacts-collector]" method=POST plugin_name=99-openshift-artifacts-collector url=/api/v1/progress/global/99-openshift-artifacts-collector
  time="2023-01-11T20:24:35Z" level=error msg="Timeout waiting for plugin 99-openshift-artifacts-collector. Try checking the pod logs and other data in the results tarball for more information."
  time="2023-01-11T20:24:35Z" level=info msg="received internal aggregator result" node=global plugin_name=99-openshift-artifacts-collector
  

   

• Archive results

$ jq . .opct-41045pr33/clusters/opct-41045pr33/opct/results/plugins/99-openshift-artifacts-collector/errors/global/error.json 
{
  "error": "Plugin timeout while waiting for results so there are no results. Check pod logs or other cluster details for more information as to why this occurred."
}