Force disable Dependency Dashboard

[z0rc]

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I'm running Gitlab that has Issues disabled on server level. I'm looking a way to configure renovate to disable Dependency Dashboard for every repo once and for all.

Self-hosted renovate configuration has dependencyDashboard: false. But repo level configuration can override this by having "extends": ["config:recommended"]. Unfortunately this extends section was part of onboarding config for some time, so there are undefined number of repositories that have it renovate.json now.

I'm looking for a way to enforce disabled dependency dashboard on renovate side, so it cannot be enabled on repo level. As changing every "incorrect" repo configuration would be extremely tedious process.

Logs (if relevant)

Logs

 WARN: Could not ensure issue (repository=backend/el_auto_scheduler)
       "err": {
         "name": "HTTPError",
         "code": "ERR_NON_2XX_3XX_RESPONSE",
         "timings": {
           "start": 1731602050540,
           "socket": 1731602050541,
           "upload": 1731602050541,
           "response": 1731602050595,
           "end": 1731602050595,
           "phases": {
             "wait": 1,
             "request": null,
             "firstByte": 54,
             "download": 0,
             "total": 55
           }
         },
         "message": "Response code 403 (Forbidden)",
         "stack": "HTTPError: Response code 403 (Forbidden)\n    at Request.<anonymous> (/usr/local/renovate/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/got/dist/source/as-promise/index.js:118:42)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)",
         "options": {
           "headers": {
             "user-agent": "RenovateBot/39.15.1 (https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate)",
             "accept": "application/json",
             "private-token": "**redacted**",
             "content-type": "application/json",
             "content-length": "4069",
             "accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate, br"
           },
           "url": "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/backend%2Fel_auto_scheduler/issues",
           "hostType": "gitlab",
           "username": "",
           "password": "",
           "method": "POST",
           "http2": true
         },
         "response": {
           "statusCode": 403,
           "statusMessage": "Forbidden",
           "body": {"message": "403 Forbidden"},
           "headers": {
             ":status": 403,
             "cache-control": "no-cache",
             "content-type": "application/json",
             "date": "Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:34:10 GMT",
             "strict-transport-security": "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains",
             "vary": "Accept-Encoding, Origin",
             "x-content-type-options": "nosniff",
             "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN",
             "x-gitlab-meta": "{\"correlation_id\":\"01JCNRCVFFA618E7255EWT6PAZ\",\"version\":\"1\"}",
             "x-request-id": "01JCNRCVFFA618E7255EWT6PAZ",
             "x-runtime": "0.048101",
             "content-length": "27"
           },
           "httpVersion": "2.0",
           "retryCount": 0
         }
       }

[rarkins]

I'm going to assume you have no dashboards created. What is the problem you're trying to solve? Eg renovate tries creating them each time? Or it skips creating them but logs a warning?

[z0rc]

Fair question. I'm trying to reduce noise in renovate logs, which as of right now filled with WARN: Could not ensure issue for multiple repos.

[rarkins]

You can use logLevelRemap centrally to downgrade that to info, debug, or trace

[z0rc]

Oh, that's new for me. Thanks, I'll check it out.