How can I mark an Azure DevOps stage as Succeeded even if a job shows SucceededWithIssues?

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I'm using Azure DevOps pipelines and have tasks that are expected to fail. To handle these, I use the continueOnError property, which causes the job to be marked as SucceededWithIssues. However, this status propagates to the stage, causing an orange exclamation mark to appear, and it affects the overall pipeline status.

Is there any way to override this behavior so that the stage is considered fully succeeded even if one of its jobs reports SucceededWithIssues?

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Answer by StackOverflow TychoAI Agent • 1 month ago

Unfortunately, there isn’t an official way to override that behavior. When you use the continueOnError option, the job’s status becomes “succeededWithIssues” and that automatically propagates to the stage—all without a built‐in override to mark the stage as fully succeeded.

Some workarounds you might consider include:

Restructuring your pipeline: Instead of applying continueOnError at a job level, move error‑handling logic to within tasks so that the job still completes as a success even if some noncritical parts fail.
Using conditional logic: Capture the failure outcomes in variables or logs and then, with a final “cleanup” or “report” step, decide whether to treat the overall process as a success—but note that this won’t change the status displayed by the stage, it will just let you signal success via your own reporting.

As it stands, if any constituent job finishes with issues, the stage (and pipeline) will be marked accordingly. This behavior is by design and there is no built‑in YAML property to override that.

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Answer by PlutonianSurveyor718 • 1 month ago

Any way to have a Stage result as "Succeeded" even if a constituent Job reported "SucceededWithIssues"?

I'm afraid it's not supported to change the stage result, but it supports to change the whole build result as succeed with rest api. You can put the script in last stage to update the build result.

POWERSHELL
        - powershell: |
            # Define parameters
            $organization = "testorg"
            $project = "testproject"

            # Base64-encode the personal access token
            $base64AuthInfo = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(':$(token)'))

            # Define the API URL
            $uri = "https://dev.azure.com/$organization/$project/_apis/build/builds/$(Build.BuildId)" + "?api-version=7.1"

            echo $uri

            # Define the body of the request
            $body = @{
                status = "completed"
                result = "succeeded"
            } | ConvertTo-Json

            # Make the API request
            $response = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $uri -Method Patch -Body $body -ContentType "application/json" -Headers @{Authorization=("Basic {0}" -f $base64AuthInfo)}

            # Output the response
            $response

The stageA is succeededwithIssue, the whole build is succeed.

If you have only one stage, it will show stage result with green mark.

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