Monitor Jenkins jobs with Datadog

Jenkins is an open source continuous integration server that automates building, testing, and deploying projects. It is widely used by organizations like GitHub, Etsy, LinkedIn, and Datadog. With hundreds of plugins, Jenkins supports a wide variety of use cases. The Datadog plugin enhances visibility into Jenkins environments by collecting real-time system and security events, as well as additional metrics such as queue size and executor counts. It also provides insights into job history and trends beyond Jenkins's standard weather reports. By integrating with Datadog, users can set alerts for important build failures, identify trends in build durations, and correlate Jenkins events with performance metrics from other parts of their infrastructure to resolve issues quickly.