Active Jobs Filter

Active Jobs Filter Plugin adds a job filter for standard Jenkins views that shows only items which have started a build within a configurable number of days. It can filter by job type and supports allow and deny patterns (as regular expressions) for job full names.

• Keep list views focused on jobs that are still being used.
• Hide stale jobs without deleting them or changing their configuration.
• Keep multibranch projects visible when one of their included branches has recent activity.

Key behaviors:

• Activity is based on the timestamp of the most recent build start time.
• Deny pattern takes precedence over allow pattern.
• 0 active days includes any job that has started at least one build.
• Multibranch change-request jobs (such as PR builds) are excluded by default.
• Branch jobs inside multibranch projects are shown only when the list view has recursion enabled.
• Regular expressions use Java matches() semantics, so they must match the whole job full name.

1. Install the plugin and restart Jenkins.
2. Create or configure a standard list view:
   • View -> Configure -> Job Filters
   • Add Active jobs filter
3. Configure the fields:
   • Active in last (days): number of days since the last build start time before a job is excluded. Set to 0 to include any job that has run at least once.
   • Job type: all, pipeline, multibranch pipeline, or freestyle.
   • Include PRs for multibranch jobs: include multibranch change-request jobs when evaluating branch jobs or multibranch project activity.
   • Regexp allow: Java regular expression to include matching job full names. Empty means no allow filtering.
   • Regexp deny: Java regular expression to exclude matching job full names. Deny wins over allow.

Job DSL example:

listView('Active jobs') {
  recurse(true)
  jobs {
    regex('.*')
  }
  jobFilters {
    activeJobsFilter {
      activeDays(14)
      jobType('ALL')
      includeMultibranchPrs(false)
      allowRegex('.*')
      denyRegex('.*experimental.*')
    }
  }
}

Build from source:

mvn package

The built plugin is written to target/active-jobs-filter.hpi.

Licensed under MIT, see LICENSE