Viewing Bamboo's Current Activity

On this page:

Sometimes you may want to see which plans are currently being built, and which plans (if any) are waiting in the build queue.

To view Bamboo's current activity,

Screenshot: Bamboo Dashboard-'Current Activity' tab

The 'Building' section shows the plans which are currently being built by an online agent. An agent can only run one plan at a time. Once an agent has completed this process, it can then commence running another plan waiting in the 'Queue' section (provided that that plan's requirements meet the agent's capabilities).

The Bamboo system in the screenshot above indicates 11 online agents currently in the process of building a plan, where:

• 'bamboo-agent-76.private.atlassian.com' is currently building a plan called 'Confluence Trunk - Main Build with Java 5',
• 'wxpp3x8632msie6 (2038)' is currently building a plan called 'Confluence Trunk Selenium - Selenium, IE8 Batch 2', and so on.

The 'Queue' section shows the list of plans which are next in line to be built on the next appropriate online agent (shown in the 'Building' section) that becomes free. Plans at the top of the 'Queue' list are next in line to be built on the next appropriate free agent.

Once a plan in the 'Building' section has completed, it is moved to the 'Recently Built' section, which shows a list of the recently completed builds in reverse chronological order.

Using the Current Activity page

In the 'Recently Built' section of this page, you can:

• Click a plan name (e.g. 'Bamboo - Export-import functional tests') to view the plan's summary page.
• Click a build number (e.g. 'BAM-EXPIMP-163') to view the build result.
• Click a 'Reason' (e.g. 'Updated by...') to view the code changes that triggered the build.
• Click the comment icon to add a comment to a build, so that you and others can keep track of any outcomes from this build.

Screenshot: Commenting on a build

Bamboo Users

If you are logged in as an ordinary Bamboo User or if you have anonymous access to a Bamboo site, you can do the following on this page:

• Click on a plan name in either the 'Building' or 'Queue' section of this page (e.g. 'Bamboo - Acceptance Test JDK 1.6') to view that plan's activity log.
• Click the 'X of Y online agents are building' link in the 'Building' section of the page to view the list of all available Bamboo agents.
  'X' is the number of online agents that are currently building Bamboo plans and 'Y' is the total number of available online agents. For more information about the distinction between 'online' and 'offline' agents, refer to Monitoring Agent Status.

Bamboo Administrators

If you are logged in as a Bamboo Administrator, additional features on this page become available, such as the ability to:

• Reorder plans in the 'Queue'. To do this, move your mouse over the icon, click on it to 'grab' the plan, move the plan to its new position in the queue and then release the mouse button.
  
  Screenshot: Moving Plans in the Queue
  
  
  
  
• Enable or disable agents. To do this, move your mouse over the 'X of Y online agents are building' link and in the resulting 'Online Agents' popup balloon, click the 'Enable' or 'Disable' buttons next to the agents you wish to enable or disable. You can also enable or disable all online agents by clicking the appropriate '...all' buttons in the popup balloon. For more information about managing agents, please refer to the Configuring Agents and Monitoring Agent Status sections.
  
  Screenshot: Enabling or Disabling Online Agents
  
  
  
  
• View individual agents details. For more information, please refer to Viewing Bamboo's Agents.