# CircleCI orb fails to upload quite often **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Fixes\ **Created:** [June 10, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.codecov.com/t/circleci-orb-fails-to-upload-quite-often/1572 "2020-06-10T20:13:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joelpoloney](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.codecov.com/joelpoloney/32/616_2.png) [@joelpoloney](https://community.codecov.com/u/joelpoloney)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.codecov.com/t/circleci-orb-fails-to-upload-quite-often/1572/1 "2020-06-10T20:13:10Z")
### Description I’m seeing that the uploading of reports fails quite often on our project. Generating the reports works just fine, but when we run the `codecov/upload` step, we get failures. This causes some wonkiness in our reports because an entire section is missing. ### Repository Private repo ### CI/CD CircleCI ### Uploader CircleCI Orb [GitHub - codecov/codecov-circleci-orb](https://github.com/codecov/codecov-circleci-orb/) ### Commit SHAs We’re using version `1.1.0` of the orb. But this was happening on the previous release as well. ### Codecov YAML ```auto coverage: range: 70..100 round: down precision: 2 fixes: - 'workspace/::' ``` ### Codecov Output ```bash #!/bin/bash -eo pipefail curl -s https://codecov.io/bash | bash -s -- \ -f "packages/web/coverage/coverage-final.json" \ -t "${CODECOV_TOKEN}" \ -n "${CIRCLE_BUILD_NUM}" \ -y ".codecov.yml" \ -F "web" \ -Z || echo 'Codecov upload failed' Codecov upload failed CircleCI received exit code 0 ``` ### Steps to Reproduce 1. Add orb to CircleCI config. Here’s our CircleCI config.yml (note: all of our packages use the `flags` option): ```yaml - codecov/upload: file: packages/web/coverage/coverage-final.json flags: web ``` 1. Wait for CircleCI to build 2. Observe some uploads fail **Expected behavior:** [What you expect to happen] Not to fail. **Actual behavior:** [What actually happens] Fails. **Flakiness?** [Does this happen all the time or only sometimes?] Only sometimes, hard to give a percentage… maybe 5-10% of the time. ### Additional Information It’s possible this is a timeout because this particular step took 2m9s whereas our other 6 uploads took 2s each and succeeded. ---
**Author:** ![tom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.codecov.com/tom/32/8_2.png) [@tom](https://community.codecov.com/u/tom)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://community.codecov.com/t/circleci-orb-fails-to-upload-quite-often/1572/2 "2020-06-10T20:16:49Z")
Thanks @joelpoloney, could you supply a commit SHA for this so I can dig in? ---
**Author:** ![tom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.codecov.com/tom/32/8_2.png) [@tom](https://community.codecov.com/u/tom)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://community.codecov.com/t/circleci-orb-fails-to-upload-quite-often/1572/4 "2020-06-10T20:37:23Z")
@joelpoloney, we had an [incident](https://status.codecov.io/incidents/mhdmp5ymkmnx) earlier that has been resolved and might be why you were experiencing this issue. Would you be able to log out of [Codecov.io](http://Codecov.io), clear your cookies, and log back in? This should resolve your problem. ---
**Author:** ![emdob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85e7bf/32.png) [@emdob](https://community.codecov.com/u/emdob)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 9:54pm UTC](https://community.codecov.com/t/circleci-orb-fails-to-upload-quite-often/1572/5 "2020-06-15T21:54:43Z")
I am also experiencing upload failures when using CircleCI in a private GitHub repo. The codecov stage takes about 30mins and then it fails without publishing the report. Any idea how this can be fixed? ==\> Gzipping contents ==\> Uploading reports url: [https://codecov.io](https://codecov.io) query: branch=pull%2F33&commit=83559ae44b08bb506b158bd7cd90f6f38b1d2278&build=89&… → Pinging Codecov [https://codecov.io/upload/v4?](https://codecov.io/upload/v4?)… → Uploading X\> Failed to upload → Sleeping for 30s and trying again… → Pinging Codecov → Uploading X\> Failed to upload → Sleeping for 30s and trying again… → Uploading to Codecov → Sleeping for 30s and trying again… → Sleeping for 30s and trying again… → Sleeping for 30s and trying again… → Sleeping for 30s and trying again… X\> Failed to upload coverage reports ---
**Author:** ![tom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.codecov.com/tom/32/8_2.png) [@tom](https://community.codecov.com/u/tom)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 2:44am UTC](https://community.codecov.com/t/circleci-orb-fails-to-upload-quite-often/1572/6 "2020-06-18T02:44:47Z")
Hi @emdob, what uploader are you using and what version? ---
**Author:** ![joelpoloney](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.codecov.com/joelpoloney/32/616_2.png) [@joelpoloney](https://community.codecov.com/u/joelpoloney)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://community.codecov.com/t/circleci-orb-fails-to-upload-quite-often/1572/7 "2020-07-14T18:11:08Z")
@tom This issue isn’t with the Codecov website or cookies or anything like that. It’s specifically when the CircleCI orb tries uploading and after 2 minutes it fails. This is still consistently happening a few times a week for us. ---
**Author:** ![joelpoloney](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.codecov.com/joelpoloney/32/616_2.png) [@joelpoloney](https://community.codecov.com/u/joelpoloney)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 6:15pm UTC](https://community.codecov.com/t/circleci-orb-fails-to-upload-quite-often/1572/8 "2020-07-14T18:15:26Z")
Here’s a git commit hash for one that failed 2/7 times from this morning: `8df1469538963bddc28210cdbb63bfee5c88578a`. This is what we see: ![Screen Shot 2020-07-14 at 11.14.33 AM](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/codecov/original/1X/c6cded025194bfbd9c2e32a0ac5fb7dcecfa035a.png) ---
**Author:** ![tom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.codecov.com/tom/32/8_2.png) [@tom](https://community.codecov.com/u/tom)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://community.codecov.com/t/circleci-orb-fails-to-upload-quite-often/1572/9 "2020-07-15T02:53:46Z")
@joelpoloney, is there no other output on that failed bash upload? We typically expect to at least see the bash script running. ---
**Author:** ![joelpoloney](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.codecov.com/joelpoloney/32/616_2.png) [@joelpoloney](https://community.codecov.com/u/joelpoloney)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 3:21am UTC](https://community.codecov.com/t/circleci-orb-fails-to-upload-quite-often/1572/10 "2020-07-15T03:21:59Z")
Nope that’s all there is. Our CircleCI `config.yml` has steps that look like: ```auto - codecov/upload: file: packages/notifications/coverage/coverage-final.json flags: notifications ``` and this is all we see 🤷‍♂️We’re going to try moving off the orb and writing our own script that wraps the codecov npm commands and will see if that’s any better for us. ---
**Author:** ![tom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.codecov.com/tom/32/8_2.png) [@tom](https://community.codecov.com/u/tom)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.codecov.com/t/circleci-orb-fails-to-upload-quite-often/1572/11 "2020-07-16T15:46:55Z")
@joelpoloney, before you do that, would you be open to trying the [bash script](https://github.com/codecov/codecov-bash)? I’d at least like to see more error logs on why this is happening, and I think directly using the script should give us some output.