Jenkins—get "Build Time Trend" values using "Remote Access API"

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Is there a way that we can get all Jenkins-"Build Time Trend" information ( Build number + Status[success/failed etc] + Duration ) for an application; using the Jenkins remote access API?

Or else I would appreciate if you could post a link of any documentation on how to get information from Jenkins using the Remote Access API. Most of the sources consist of the way of running jobs, but I couldn't find any, which shows how to fetch information from jenkins.

Thanks!

I could get something done by using this mechanism. `http://localhost:8080/job/MY-APPLICATION/BUILD#/api/json` Using this, I will be able to run a loop, call this again and again changing the BUILD# and get information of each build. But it will be great if I have a way of getting all the information with a one call (as a collection) which would reduce the overhead. If you have an idea about such a mechanism, please do help me with this matter. Thanks. — Chathura Kulasinghe, Dec 10 '12 at 11:43

score 19 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 10 '12 at 19:58

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You can use something like this URL:

http://jenkins:8080/job/MY-APPLICATION/api/json?tree=builds[number,id,timestamp,result,duration]

There's a little more documentation in the root api element:

http://jenkins:8080/job/MY-APPLICATION/api

I admit to not completely understanding the tree parameter. I couldn't find a simple example of retrieving the entire builds subtree.

answered Dec 10 '12 at 19:58

Dave Bacher

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Thanks a lot Dave Bacher!!! That's what I exactly was looking for!! Thank you very much again!!! – Chathura Kulasinghe Dec 11 '12 at 03:48
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What unit is that duration? Millis? Jiffis? Microseconds? – Danny Staple Aug 07 '15 at 15:26
@Danny, the duration fields look like milliseconds in my instance, confirmed by [code documentation](http://javadoc.jenkins-ci.org/hudson/model/Run.html#getDuration()) – Dave Bacher Aug 07 '15 at 17:34
Thanks a lot! I got the data I need. :) – devwannabe Feb 26 '17 at 17:25

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 07 '14 at 23:43

I admit to not completely understanding the tree parameter. I couldn't find a simple example of retrieving the entire builds subtree.

You can access the entire subtree of an element by using [*] such as http://jenkins:8080/job/MY-APPLICATION/api/json?tree=builds[*]

Cheers,

score 9 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 29 '16 at 14:51

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For retrieving ALL builds, use

http://jenkins:8080/job/MY-APPLICATION/api/json?tree=allBuilds[number,id,timestamp,result,duration]

Note that B is capitalized in allBuilds

answered Mar 29 '16 at 14:51

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This is real answer as usually you want to use `allBuilds` not just `builds` – Dawid Gosławski Apr 12 '17 at 07:56
What's the difference between allBuilds and builds? I found there were the same. – Tony Chou Apr 21 '21 at 11:47

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