TeamCity 4.0 Help

Overview tab

The top part of the tab is color coded (green if the build passed all the test, red if it failed, and blue if it is still running).

Below the color-coded section, a comment for the build is displayed.

Item

Description

Add comment

Click to add a comment for the build

Change comment

Click to edit existing comment. To delete a comment, click the link and delete comment's text in the dialog.

Finished builds

Item

Description

Result

Shows the build result message and Build State.

Time

Shows the build's start time and the duration it took to build.

Agent

Link to the agent that ran the build. Clicking this link opens the Agent Details page.

Triggered

Shows what triggered the build, and when it happened.

Pin status

Use Pin/Unpin link to toggle Pinned Build status of the build result.

Tags

View any build tag that have been assigned to the build, and edit tags.

Running builds

Item

Description

Hanging build notification

If a build is probably hanging, the following notification appears on top of the Overview tab: Hanging build

Started

Shows build start time and Build State. Use Stop build link to kill the entire build process, in case something goes wrong. To investigate the issue, use Thread dump link.

Time left

Shows estimated time left to build completion (passed and estimated total time in brackets)

Agent

Link to the agent that is running the build. Clicking this link opens the Agent Details page.

Triggered

Shows what triggered the build, and when it happened.

Responsible

This field is available for the failing builds. Click the Take responsibility link, if you consider yourself responsible for the problems in this build.

Thread dump

Click the View thread dump link to view the process tree of the running build, and thread dumps of each Java or .Net process in a separate frame. If the process is not Java or .Net, its command line is retrieved. The possibility to view thread dump is supported for the following platforms:

  • Windows, with JDK 1.3 and higher

  • Windows, with JDK 1.6 and higher, using jstack utility

  • Non-Windows, with JDK 1.5 and higher, using jstack utility

Running step

Shows the current step of the build procedure.

The top part of the tab (either of the above sections and a build comment) is followed by an overview of tests, code coverage and/or duplicates search if they are part of the build configuration. Failed tests provide links to where they can be viewed in the web UI or the IDE. Failed tests that have been fixed will appear as struck-through text and will list the build in which the fix first appeared.

The overview of tests includes information about the failed, ignored and passed tests:

Tests details
Expand the failed tests node to see the details:
Tests details1

Last modified: 20 April 2023