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Jenkins Monitoring

Requires Opsview Cloud or Opsview Monitor 6
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Jenkins Opspack

Jenkins is a leading open source automation server that helps automate parts of the software development process. By providing hundreds of plugins to support the building, deploying and automating of any project, Jenkins empowers teams to implement the technical part of a continuous delivery.

What You Can Monitor

This Opspack allows you to monitor all the metrics you need to efficiently run Jenkins, providing service checks to view the status of all jobs, jobs in a particular view and specific jobs, as well as valueable information about the number of jobs currently in the queue.

Service Checks

Service Check Description
Overall Status Get the status of all jobs that have been run
View Status Get the status of all jobs in a specific view
Job Status Get the status of a specific job and test results if a test was run against the job
Build Queue The number of jobs currently in the queue

Setup and Configuration

To configure and utilize this Opspack, you simply need to add the 'Application - Jenkins' Opspack to your Opsview Monitor system.

Step 1: Add the host template

Add the Application - Jenkins Host Template to your Opsview Monitor host.

For more information, refer to Opsview Knowledge Center - Adding Host Templates to Hosts.

Step 2: Add and configure variables required for this host

Variable Description
JENKINS_AUTHENTICATION The authentication details for your Jenkins server. Ensure you override the Username, Password and URL Path with your configuration details.
JENKINS_JOB The Value is the name of the Jenkins Job you want to monitor. You can add multiple variables to check the status of each Job individually.
JENKINS_VIEW The Value is the name of the Jenkins View you want to monitor. You can add multiple variables to check the status of each View individually.

Step 3: Apply changes and the system will now be monitored

Jenkins Service Checks