How do I investigate cause for jenkins build abort by anonymous

Question

Some of my jenkins build fail randomly and the only clue in the console output I have is:

Build was aborted
Aborted by anonymous

How do investigate what is the cause of this?

Answer 1

If this is happening while running a Multijob using "Multijob Plugin", you need to configure the jobs not to kill the other jobs when they fail.

Answer 2

Step1

Make sure you have Matrix Authorization Strategy Plugin installed in your jenkins

Step2

Go to your job configuration page, set the job with limited access to only some members(like foo, bar), and remove the build access for anonymous.