Canceled evaluation provide circular or wrong debug information.

[stswidwinski]

Nomad version

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Operating system and Environment details

Unix

Issue

When an evaluation is canceled, it produces confusing or wrong debug information. In particular:

$ nomad eval status  -namespace '*' -json 81235e65
{
    [...]
    "CreateIndex": 6445487,
    "CreateTime": 1682965847060638834,
    [...]
    "ModifyIndex": 6445493,
    "ModifyTime": 1682965847060638834,
    [...]
    "Status": "canceled",
    "StatusDescription": "evaluation \"81235e65-7e71-9595-0a34-00674bff2b75\" successful",
    [...]
}

There are a few interesting points:

1. CreateIndex and ModifyIndex are different but CreateTime and ModifyTime are the same. In practice the times should be 30 seconds apart.
2. StatusDescription reports the successful evaluation as the same evaluation which is canceled. This is not the intended information.

I will submit a proposed patch to fix these fields below.

[jrasell]

Hi @stswidwinski thanks for raising this issue and the corresponding PR. We will take a look into this shortly.

[tgross]

Fixed in #17071 which will ship in the next release of Nomad 1.5.x, with backports to 1.4.x and 1.3.x.