Problem/Motivation

Now that #2946732: Tugboat: Enhance instance-specific logging is completed, even though showing the log is extremely helpful, it might be overwhelming for many users.

Proposed resolution

Inspired by CircleCI's interface, we can use a similar interface for simplytest.me

Initially we can have the full log hidden by a title (ie. "Spin up Environment")
A click on that title will toggle between expanding and displaying the full log, and collapsing it.

An additional improvement to that would be if it's possible to divide the 1 long log into a few smaller log groups, each one hidden by its own title.

Screenshot of CircleCI's interface:

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

Release notes snippet

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#2 IMG_0553.jpeg965.32 KBrachel_norfolk
circleci-interface.png249.65 KBshaal

Comments

shaal created an issue. See original summary.

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I do like the idea of splitting log output into multiple sections.

We currently log a huge number of items where we are tracking hit repos and it makes the log a little unusable. Difficult to scroll and find important stuff.

See:

Screenshot showing many items in log