Chapter 26. Monitoring Plugin

Introduction

The open source metrics plugin for Jenkins collects various metrics about how Jenkins is performing. The CloudBees Monitoring plugin adds supports for Jenkins views of those metrics. In addition to providing graphs of the metrics the CloudBees Monitoring plugin can be configured to send email alerts when metrics deviate from user defined ranges.

Figure 26.1. The Jenkins Enterprise Metrics Dashboard provided by the CloudBees Monitoring plugin

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The Monitoring plugin was introduced in Jenkins Enterprise 14.05.