The management and monitoring of Jenkins is essential, as it is at the core of our automation vision. We can utilize existing Jenkins features or plugins to manage and monitor Jenkins and its jobs effectively.
This chapter gives insight into the management of Jenkins nodes and monitoring them with Java melody to provide details on the utilization of resources. It also covers how to monitor build jobs configured for Java or .NET-related applications, and managing those configurations by keeping backups of them. This chapter describes the basic security configuration available in Jenkins in detail, for better access control and authorization. We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- Managing Jenkins Master and Agent nodes
- Jenkins Monitoring with Java Melody
- Managing job-specific configurations - backup and restore
- Managing disk usage
- Build job-specific monitoring with the Build Monitor plugin
- The Audit Trail plugin- overview and usage
- The Workspace...