Jenkins' Build History feature tells you about what was built by a given server and when, along with various other information including the status of that build. For some reason, it takes it an incredibly long time to generate this report, causing proxy servers to time out waiting, and/or causing excessive CPU load on the Jenkins master, which really has better things to be doing than asking what ran where, and when.
Normally, all I am interested in is what jobs ran on a box, and whether or not they succeeded.
This simple script gets just that, and nothing else, by grepping the XML files directly. Okay, that's not the cleanest way to do it, but it works, it's simple, and it's likely to work in 99% of situations (or more).
It also colour-codes the output - successful builds are written in green and failed builds are in red. There are various other possible status (aborted, etc) which each get a different colour.
Usage: buildhistory.sh [ -f ] slavename
With the "-f" flag, output is ordered alphabetically by project name (marginally faster).
Without the "-f" flag, output is ordered by date (oldest first, most recent last).
Exactly one slave name should be provided (the name may contain spaces).
[jenkins]$ ./buildhistory.sh buildslave23 Build history for Jenkins slave: buildslave23 Project Date/Time Status foo-core-web-develop 20140424.102620 = SUCCESS foo-core-web-develop 20140424.105233 = SUCCESS foo-core-web-sonar-develop 20140424.105510 = SUCCESS foo-core-web-develop 20140424.122039 = SUCCESS foo-core-sonar-develop 20140424.130411 = FAILURE foo-FeatureBranchSonarBuild 20140424.144020 = FAILURE foo-FeatureBranchSonarBuild 20140424.155701 = ABORTED foo-core-web-develop 20140424.173555 = SUCCESS foo-FeatureBranchSonarBuild 20140424.223123 = ABORTED foo-core-web-develop 20140425.075519 = SUCCESS foo-core-sonar-develop 20140425.100456 = ABORTED foo-FeatureBranchBuild 20140425.162209 = ABORTED foo-FeatureBranchBuild 20140425.165236 = FAILURE foo-FeatureBranchBuild 20140425.170210 = ABORTED foo-FeatureBranchBuild 20140425.190320 = ABORTED foo-core-web-develop 20140426.114928 = SUCCESS foo-FeatureBranchBuild 20140426.120027 = UNSTABLE foo-core-web-develop 20140428.083157 = SUCCESS foo-FeatureBranchBuild 20140428.083630 = UNSTABLE foo-FeatureBranchBuild 20140428.112322 = UNSTABLE foo-web-FeatureBranchSonarBuild 20140428.115537 = SUCCESS foo-FeatureBranchBuild 20140428.131701 = UNSTABLE [jenkins]$