Advice Needed - Metrics Collection

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Folks,

BACKGROUND
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We have a centralized corporate metrics database for all things software dev related that needs to be populated with build information. The data we want looks like this:

Build Date, Project Name, Project Admin, Status

Simple really. Most of this I can get through the standard feed for a build but there are a few challenges:

  • How do you get a feed of all projects and builds?

  • How do you add the name of the person with the Project Admin role to the feed template?


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  • What do you think the best approach to building a metrics "pumper"

- Should I just hit the backend database directly? Ick.
- Should I create metrics plugin using classes like jetbrains.buildServer.serverSide.statistics.build.BuildFinishAware?
- Will this give me access to the users associated with the project being built?
- Can this data be collected via feeds? Please say yes. ;)


Thanks for your time,
Robert Evans

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Yegor Yarko
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Robert,

  • How do you get a feed of all projects and builds?


Feed generator page (available from the My Settings and Tools page) allows to select all the Build Configurations.
The URL will look like:
http://teamcity.server/httpAuth/feed.html?itemsType=builds

  • How do you add the name of the person with the Project Admin role to the feed template?


This is not possible to do in the feed template. I just added an extension point to allow adding any objects into the template context with a bit of Java code. The extension should be included in 4.0.

  • What do you think the best approach to building a metrics "pumper"


Most appropriate approach seems to be a separate plugin. It can provide the data via a web page or via any other means.

- Should I just hit the backend database directly? Ick.


You should rather use TeamCity's openAPI from a plugin.
While not recommended, you can also read the information directly from the database but you should be ready to update your code with each TeamCity upgrade.

- Should I create metrics plugin using classes like
jetbrains.buildServer.serverSide.statistics.build.BuildFinishAware?


Yes, you could listen for the build finish events, or just get the builds history (e.g. from BuildHistory interface) when necessary.

- Will this give me access to the users associated with the project being built?


You can get al the users in the system via UserModel.getAllUsers

- Can this data be collected via feeds? Please say yes. ;)


Sorry, but not currently. See my related comment above.

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Best regards,

Yegor Yarko
Project Manager (TeamCity)
JetBrains, Inc
http://www.jetbrains.com
"Develop with pleasure!"

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