Add ability to view errors in juju status

[Sandor Zeestraten]

It would be nice if juju had some way to show errors in the status output for those of us with somewhat large models.

With a small HA OpenStack, the `juju status` output is 375 lines long and hunting for charm errors can be a bit annoying.

Something like `juju status --errors` or `juju show-errors`.

[Anastasia (anastasia-macmood)]

We have had conversation about exposing errors in a more obvious way. Thank you for filing a bug \o/

Meanwhile, 'juju status --format=yaml' shows errors.

We cannot put the errors in standard, tabular format of 'juju status' as the errors have tendency to be verbose.

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

You can do:
  juju status error

Which will only show units with 'error' as a status (or potentially also an
application named status).
It doesn't, however, consider 'blocked' or some other types of status as
'error' as it is just a string match.

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Sandor Zeestraten <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> It would be nice if juju had some way to show errors in the status
> output for those of us with somewhat large models.
>
> With a small HA OpenStack, the `juju status` output is 375 lines long
> and hunting for charm errors can be a bit annoying.
>
> Something like `juju status --errors` or `juju show-errors`.
>
> ** Affects: juju
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
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[Sandor Zeestraten (szeestraten)]

Aha, that is exactly what I'm looking for.

Reading the `juju status --help` output, I got the impression that it only would match on applications, units and machines so I did not even think of trying it.

Details:
By default (without argument), the status of the model, including all
applications and units will be output.

Application or unit names may be used as output filters (the '*' can be used as
a wildcard character). In addition to matched applications and units, related
machines, applications, and units will also be displayed. If a subordinate unit
is matched, then its principal unit will be displayed. If a principal unit is
matched, then all of its subordinates will be displayed.

[Anastasia (anastasia-macmood)]

As per comments above, we should update command help for clarity.

[Jon Seager (jnsgruk)]

https://github.com/juju/juju/pull/14055