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title: “Jenkins” description: > Jenkins Plugin

Summary

This plugin collects Jenkins data through Remote Access API. It then computes and visualizes various DevOps metrics from the Jenkins data.

Metrics

Metric Name	Description
Build Count	The number of builds created
Build Success Rate	The percentage of successful builds

Configuration

In order to fully use this plugin, you will need to set various configurations via Dev Lake's config-ui.

By config-ui

The connection section of the configuration screen requires the following key fields to connect to the Jenkins API.

• Connection Name [READONLY]
  • ⚠️ Defaults to “Jenkins” and may not be changed. As Jenkins is a single-source data provider at the moment, the connection name is read-only as there is only one instance to manage. As we advance on our development roadmap we may enable multi-source connections for Jenkins in the future.
• Endpoint URL (REST URL, starts with https:// or http://i, ends with /)
  • This should be a valid REST API Endpoint eg. https://ci.jenkins.io/
• Username (E-mail)
  • Your User ID for the Jenkins Instance.
• Password (Secret Phrase or API Access Token)
  • Secret password for common credentials.
  • For help on Username and Password, please see official Jenkins Docs on Using Credentials
  • Or you can use API Access Token for this field, which can be generated at User -> Configure -> API Token section on Jenkins.

Click Save Connection to update connection settings.

Collect Data From Jenkins

To collect data, select Advanced Mode on the Create Pipeline Run page and paste a JSON config like the following:

[
  [
    {
      "plugin": "jenkins",
      "options": {}
    }
  ]
]

Relationship between job and build

Build is kind of a snapshot of job. Running job each time creates a build.