show which agent is being used for a workflow in the UI

[wez]

I quite often find myself wanting to know where a workflow is or was running, especially if it seems to be taking a long time to run, or, when troubleshooting flakeyness that turns out to be environmental.

It would be super convenient if the UI could show the agent name once a given workflow has been picked up.

[qwerty287]

Do you mean the queue UI? Then we have this request already in #2162 (comment)

[wez]

on the pipeline page, so that you can see the timing of the pipeline steps and understand which agent it was running on

I've discovered that I can echo $CI_MACHINE in a step to see the agent name: that appears to be an undocumented variable (not listed on https://woodpecker-ci.org/docs/usage/environment), but it would be great to see at a glance without having to modify every workflow for this.

[zc-devs]

wanting to know where a workflow is or was running
It would be super convenient if the UI could show the agent name once a given workflow has been picked up.

Depends on the backend, I suppose.