Nomad UI Job Details Not Available When Authoritative Region is Down

[MikaelHashiCorp]

Nomad version

v1.2.5

Operating system and Environment details

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal

Issue

When a Nomad authoritative region goes down, the Nomad UI job details are not available from the non-authoritative region, giving the error:

Server Error:  A server error prevented data from being sent to the client.

Reproduction steps

1. Create a couple of federated multi-region servers.

• References
  • Federation
  • Multi-Region Deployments
  • Create Management Tokens For Other Regions

2. Deploy a job in the non-authoritative region.
3. Shut down Nomad agent in the authoritative region.
4. Go to the Nomad UI jobs page (http://localhost:4646/ui/jobs) and click on any of the job links.

Expected Result

Job details are displayed.

Actual Result

Server Error:  A server error prevented data from being sent to the client.

Workaround

Access the job details via the Nomad CLI and API:

• Nomad Commands (CLI)
• Nomad HTTP API

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