badges/shields · error · InvalidResponse

metrics missing for branch

Error message

metrics missing for branch

What it means

InvalidResponse thrown when the Scrutinizer branch info exists but has no `index` object, meaning the branch was registered in Scrutinizer but its metrics (coverage/score) were never computed or the API returned an incomplete payload. The service guards against dereferencing index._embedded.project.metric_values on undefined.

Source

Thrown at services/scrutinizer/scrutinizer-base.js:33

  transformBranchInfo({ json, wantedBranch }) {
    const branch = wantedBranch || json.default_branch
    const noBranchInfoMessage = wantedBranch
      ? 'branch not found'
      : 'unavailable for default branch'

    const branchInfo = json.applications[branch]
    if (!branchInfo) {
      throw new NotFound({ prettyMessage: noBranchInfoMessage })
    }

    return branchInfo
  }

  transformBranchInfoMetricValue({ json, branch, metric }) {
    const branchInfo = this.transformBranchInfo({ json, wantedBranch: branch })
    if (!branchInfo.index) {
      throw new InvalidResponse({ prettyMessage: 'metrics missing for branch' })
    }
    const {
      index: {
        _embedded: {
          project: { metric_values: metricValues },
        },
      },
    } = branchInfo

    return { value: metricValues[metric] }
  }
}

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Solutions

1. Check the project on scrutinizer-ci.com for a completed, successful analysis of that branch
2. Re-run the Scrutinizer build and retry the badge once metrics exist
3. Confirm .scrutinizer.yml is configured so the inspection produces metric values
4. Retry later if the Scrutinizer API was returning incomplete data

function hasMetrics(branchInfo) {
  return Boolean(branchInfo && branchInfo.index && branchInfo.index._embedded && branchInfo.index._embedded.project && branchInfo.index._embedded.project.metric_values)
}

try {
  const badge = await fetchBadgeUrl(scrutinizerCoverageUrl)
} catch (e) {
  if (/metrics missing for branch/.test(e.message)) {
    console.warn('Scrutinizer has no computed metrics for this branch yet')
  } else throw e
}

When it happens

Trigger: Requesting a Scrutinizer coverage or quality score badge for a branch whose analysis produced no index data — e.g. build queued/failed, analysis still running, or Scrutinizer returned an applications entry without an index for that branch.

Common situations: First Scrutinizer build failing so metrics never populate; branch analysis pending; Scrutinizer API degraded or returning partial JSON; repo added but inspection config disabled.

Related errors

• No maintainer
• no result
• no result
• ${noBranchInfoMessage}
• coverage not found

AI-assisted analysis of badges/shields@766fd8bc89 (2026-08-30). Data as JSON: /api/errors/b1f8a478698fcb76. Report an issue: GitHub.