We have dashboards with multiple pipeline badges to keep an eye on our Azure DevOps pipelines. I often wondered why we cannot change the "Azure Pipelines" label to reduce the duplication (WASTE) and make our dashboards more compact.
Well, if you change ...
[](https://dev.azure.com/demo-org/demo-proj/_build/latest?definitionId=1818)
... to ...
[](https://dev.azure.com/demo-org/demo-proj/_build/latest?definitionId=1818)
... by adding &label=<TEXT>
, you can enjoy a more compact version of your dashboard.
I stumbled over this tweak in a recent Azure DevOps community chat and realized that I must read the Azure DevOps REST API documentation a bit more carefully. See URI Parameters in Status Get and notice "Replaces the default text on the left side of the badge."