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None. Implements decision D25 of the internal Metrics 2.0 telemetry plan (a deployment failure reason was the one thing the deploy funnel could not explain).

Summary

crewai deploy create counted attempts (Create Crew Deployment) and successes (Crew Deployment Created) but recorded nothing about the failures in between, so a 36% success rate from the run TUI had no explanation. A third span, Crew Deployment Failed, now fires for every failure after the attempt is counted, carrying a closed-vocabulary reason (api_4xx, api_5xx, invalid_response, network_error, zip_error, user_declined, unexpected), the HTTP status_code when the API answered, and source. The error message is never recorded.

  • Scope: DeployCommand.create_crew, used by the CLI deploy create and by the run TUI's deploy action. The request path moves into _request_crew_creation so every exception is classified, reported and re-raised unchanged.
  • Public surface: one new Telemetry.crew_deployment_failed_span and a DeployFailureReason literal in crewai_core.telemetry; ArchiveError(ValueError) in crewai_cli.deploy.archive so an archive failure is distinguishable from the git helpers' own ValueErrors. No existing signature changes; _validate_response untouched.
  • Response classification is status-first (a gateway's HTML 502 is api_5xx), and a 2xx whose body is not a JSON object with uuid and status is invalid_response and exits cleanly instead of crashing after a success span.
  • Docs: telemetry.mdx deployment row updated in en, ar, ko, pt-BR.
  • Out: no warehouse route for the new span yet (follows the release); no change to how failures are displayed; no failure span for deploy push.

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  • Tests added or updated for the changed behavior
  • Relevant tests and quality checks pass locally

Tests prove each classification (4xx with code, 5xx, non-JSON 5xx, non-JSON 2xx, non-creation 2xx bodies, transport error, archive error, git-helper error as unexpected, prompt abort, TUI source), the success path emitting no failure, the archive boundary wrapping staging, temp-file and write failures as ArchiveError and leaving no partial archive or staging directory behind, and that the span carries the release, omits status_code without a response, emits no feature count and nothing when opted out. ruff check, ruff format --check and mypy on the changed modules are clean; the pre-existing failures in lib/cli/tests (git-fetch mocks, JSON runner subprocess) are identical on origin/main.

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Follow-up, not in this PR: route the span into the telemetry warehouse once a release carries it (allowlist, stage, deployment spine, rollup, canonical view).

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Changes are limited to deploy-create telemetry classification, archive error typing, and docs; user-visible deploy behavior and error messages are re-raised unchanged.

Overview
crewai deploy create now emits a Crew Deployment Failed telemetry span whenever an attempt does not become a success, closing the gap between attempt and success counts. Each failure carries a fixed reason (api_4xx, api_5xx, invalid_response, network_error, zip_error, user_declined, unexpected), optional HTTP status_code, and source (CLI vs run TUI)—never the error message.

The deploy flow refactors API/ZIP creation into _request_crew_creation, classifies exceptions and responses before success handling, and only fires crew_deployment_created_span after a valid creation payload. ZIP build failures use new ArchiveError (still a ValueError) with safer cleanup so partial archives are not left behind.

Telemetry docs (en, ar, ko, pt-BR) document failure category and status on the crew deployment CLI row.

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`crewai deploy create` counts every attempt (`Create Crew Deployment`) and every
success (`Crew Deployment Created`), but the gap between them carried no cause:
among clients able to emit the success span, the CLI succeeds 96.7% of the time
and the run TUI 36.4%, and nothing said why. A third span, `Crew Deployment
Failed`, now fires for every failure after the attempt is counted, with a closed
vocabulary `reason` (api_4xx, api_5xx, invalid_response, network_error,
zip_error, user_declined, unexpected), the HTTP `status_code` when the API
answered, and the existing `source`. Never the error message.

The request path is factored into `_request_crew_creation`; every exception is
classified, reported and re-raised unchanged, so CLI and TUI behaviour is the
same as before. HTTP failures are classified before `_validate_response`, which
still prints and exits as it did.

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The CLI now classifies Crew deployment creation failures and emits failure telemetry with a fixed reason and optional HTTP status code. Archive failures use a distinct exception type. Tests and localized documentation cover the new behavior.

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Deployment telemetry

Layer / File(s) Summary
Failure telemetry contract
lib/crewai-core/src/crewai_core/telemetry.py, lib/crewai-core/tests/test_telemetry_deploy.py
Defines DeployFailureReason and adds crew_deployment_failed_span. Tests cover span attributes, disabled telemetry, and release attribution.
Archive failure boundary
lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/deploy/archive.py, lib/cli/tests/deploy/test_archive.py
Adds ArchiveError for missing deployable files and archive-construction failures. Partial archives are removed after write failures.
CLI failure classification and reporting
lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/deploy/main.py, lib/cli/tests/deploy/test_deploy_main.py
Classifies API, network, archive, cancellation, and invalid-response failures. Reports failure spans and emits creation telemetry only after valid response classification.
Telemetry documentation
docs/edge/ar/telemetry.mdx, docs/edge/en/telemetry.mdx, docs/edge/ko/telemetry.mdx, docs/edge/pt-BR/telemetry.mdx
Documents failure categories, optional HTTP status codes, and excluded error messages or project contents.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DeployCommand
  participant DeploymentAPI
  participant Telemetry
  DeployCommand->>DeploymentAPI: Request crew creation
  DeploymentAPI-->>DeployCommand: Response or exception
  DeployCommand->>DeployCommand: Classify failure
  DeployCommand->>Telemetry: Emit failure span
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In `@lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/deploy/main.py`:
- Around line 142-143: Update _creation_failure_reason so uncaught OSError from
Git operations in _request_crew_creation, including _prepare_git_repository, is
not classified as zip_error. Restrict zip_error to failures from archive
generation, using a dedicated archive exception or an explicit
_create_crew_from_zip boundary while preserving ValueError and BadZipFile
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- Line 160: Update the successful deployment-response handling near the return
None path to validate that the parsed 2xx payload is a non-empty mapping
containing all required creation fields before recording
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Review fixes on the failure span. Check the HTTP class before the body so a
gateway's HTML page counts as api_4xx / api_5xx with its code. Treat a 2xx
whose body is not a JSON object carrying uuid and status as invalid_response
and exit cleanly, instead of emitting a success span and crashing in the
display step. Recognise archive failures by a dedicated ArchiveError
(a ValueError) raised from create_project_zip, so the git helpers' own
ValueErrors no longer read as zip_error; a failed ZIP write is wrapped and
its partial file removed.

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Pre-merge checks: the description is now in the repository template. There is no linked issue on purpose — this implements an internal telemetry decision (Metrics 2.0, D25) and the require-issue gate does not apply to this author. Docstring coverage: not adding docstrings to the new test functions; their names state the behaviour and this suite adds a docstring only where the intent is non-obvious. Every new production function (_creation_failure_reason, _response_failure_reason, _request_crew_creation, crew_deployment_failed_span, ArchiveError) has one.

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`create_project_zip` only wrapped the ZIP write, so an `OSError` while
staging files or creating the temporary archive escaped as a bare
`OSError` and the deploy command recorded it as `unexpected` instead of
`zip_error`. The archive boundary now covers staging, temp-file creation
and the write; the staging directory is removed on every path, and no
partial archive is left behind.

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