Gitlab CI - find the pipeline variables used

Question

When you run a pipeline from the Gitlab UI, you are open to add variables to the run:

From the overview of finished pipelines, is there a way to find the set variables and values of specific runs?

Answer 1

As far as I know, these are one time variables you set by running a pipeline manually. You cannot view the the variables in the UI. Instead, like @Origin said you can echo the variable in the job.

example:

script:
    - '& echo "$MY_VARIABLE"'

I would recommend you to save your variables in the default CI/CD Settings. (Settings -> CI/CD -> Variables). There you can set, save, protect (from other user roles) and view them for sure. These variables will be used in any pipeline run you do.

Answer 2

On the latest versions of Gitlab (2025 something), you can use the workflow:name property in gitlab-ci.yml to display some of your pipeline variables values directly in the pipeline Title.

For example :

workflow:
  name: 'Deploy my artifact using branch=$CI_COMMIT_BRANCH and version=$MY_VERSION, choice=$MY_CHOICE'

variables:
  MY_VERSION:
    value: 3
    description: "artifact version"
  MY_CHOICE:
    value: "default"
    description: "your choice"
    options:
      - "default"
      - "choice1"
      - "choice2"

From my end I found it very useful.