Alexey MelezhikSparky is a powerful pocket size task runner server in crontab style.
It's just a piece of cake how you can monitor VSTS builds using Sparky.
The task is to check that VSTS builds scheduled daily finish successfully.
Monitoring scenario
There are daily builds for production release candidates web application. The application source code is at VSTS git repository $git-repository and the build definition named as Web Build. We want to ensure the next day after a build happens that it succeeds.
Sparrowdo plugin called vsts-schedule-build-check does all the job:
$ nano sparrowfile
#!perl6
my $git-repository = "http/git/repo";
git-scm $git-repository;
task-run "WebApplication Build Check", "vsts-schedule-build-check", %(
pattern => "Web Build",
);
Monitoring scheduler
As builds get run daily, we run monitor daily as well, right after builds:
$ nano sparky.yaml
crontab: "2 20 * * *"
keep_builds: 10
keep_builds directive means no more 10 sparky reports are kept for this job, as we don't want to keep monitoring reports forever.
Report
2018-10-24 20:02:19 : [task] WebApplication Build Check [plg] vsts-schedule-build-check [path] /
++ grep schedule
++ grep 'Web Build Update'
++ vsts build list
104316 2.0181e+07 completed succeeded 872 Web Build master 2018-10-24 03:00:00.560775 schedule
102573 2.0181e+07 completed succeeded 872 Web Build master 2018-10-23 03:00:00.267757 schedule
100867 2.0181e+07 completed succeeded 872 Web Build master 2018-10-22 03:00:01.772785 schedule
77631 2.0181e+07 completed succeeded 872 Web Build master 2018-10-21 03:00:01.573334 schedule
78325 2.0181e+07 completed succeeded 872 Web Build master 2018-10-20 03:00:00.225068 schedule
76774 2.0181e+07 completed failed 872 Web Build master 2018-10-17 03:00:00.877437 schedule
75028 2.0181e+07 completed failed 872 Web Build master 2018-10-18 03:00:00.548563 schedule
73277 2.0181e+07 completed failed 872 Web Build master 2018-10-17 03:00:00.477304 schedule
71571 2.0181e+07 completed failed 872 Web Build master 2018-10-16 03:00:02.605516 schedule
87715 2.0181e+07 completed failed 872 Web Build master 2018-10-15 03:00:02.266283 schedule
88667 2.0181e+07 completed failed 872 Web Build master 2018-10-14 03:00:00.535670 schedule
87423 2.0181e+07 completed succeeded 872 Web Build master 2018-10-13 03:00:00.537774 schedule
61408 2.01807e+07 completed succeeded 872 Web Build develop 2018-07-26 03:00:01.518767 schedule
ok scenario succeeded
ok text match /completed\s+succeeded.*\s+2018-10-24\s+\S+\s+schedule$/
ok text match /completed\s+(succeeded|failed).*\s+2018-10-24\s+\S+\s+schedule$/
STATUS SUCCEED
Last build for yesterday (2018-10-24) is successful and we're happy.
