There are many ways to set up your Jenkins environment, and depending on the configuration you choose, there are different best practices and options to optimize your environment. In this blog, I’m going to focus on Jenkins Health Advisor by CloudBees as a way to fine-tune your environment. It’s a free tool that can help administrators understand and manage their Jenkins controller. If you’re a CloudBees customer,...
Managing any software presents its own unique challenges. Jenkins controllers are no exception. For example, How do you keep a finger on the pulse of everything going on in your Jenkins environment? Are you looking at every new defect opened in the issue tracker? How do you make sure that your controllers or agents don’t silently fail? Are you monitoring its logs? All of its internal...