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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.

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": {
        "connectionId": 1
      }
    }
  ]
]

Relationship between job and build

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