Commit 5bf8e566 authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Add docs for multi-project pipelines graphs

parent 9f999549
......@@ -186,6 +186,20 @@ by name. The order of severity is:
![Pipeline mini graph sorting](img/pipelines_mini_graph_sorting.png)
### Multi-project pipelines graphs
> [Introduced][ee-2121] in [GitLab Enterprise Edition Premium][eep] 9.3.
When projects are connected via [triggers], those connections are displayed in
the pipeline graph by showing inbound and outbound connections for upstream and
downstream pipeline dependencies.
![Multi-projects pipelines graphs](img/multi_project_pipelines_graph.png)
This is useful for larger projects, especially those adopting a micro-services
architecture, that often have a set of interdependent components which form the
complete product.
## How the pipeline duration is calculated
Total running time for a given pipeline would exclude retries and pending
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[stages]: yaml/README.md#stages
[runners]: runners/README.html
[pipelines settings]: ../user/project/pipelines/settings.md
[triggers]: triggers/README.md
[triggers]: triggers/README.md#ci-job-token
[ce-5742]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/5742
[ce-6242]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/6242
[ce-7931]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/7931
[ce-9760]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/9760
[regexp]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/2f3dc314f42dbd79813e6251792853bc231e69dd/app/models/commit_status.rb#L99
[eep]: https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ee/ "GitLab Enterprise Edition Premium"
[ee-2121]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/2121
......@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ which is used to authenticate with the [GitLab Container Registry][registry].
This way of triggering can only be used when invoked inside `.gitlab-ci.yml`,
and it creates a dependent pipeline relation visible on the
[pipeline graph](../pipelines.md#pipelines-graphs). For example:
[pipeline graph](../pipelines.md#multi-project-pipelines-graphs). For example:
```yaml
build_docs:
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