How to fire an alert when a Jenkins job runs for too long?

Question

I want to be alerted when my Jenkins jobs run for too long. I didn't find such a plugin, do you know of such a plugin, or another way to do it?

Thanks!

Answer 1

As far as I know there is no such plugin or configuration available. There is buildtimeout-plugin, which will abort the build on a given timeout, but AFAIK doesn't support just giving an alert and not aborting.

if you're willing to make a custom build of the plugin, it might be reasonable to extend that yourself. Like you can see from its source code, it defines a general BuildTimeoutOperation interface which should be extendable to give an alert on build timeout instead of aborting a build. The existing implementations of the interface could give you some ideas on how that would be done.