BuildCaptainPinned pipelines and the menu bar
Pin the pipelines you care about, read the menu bar icon, and get failure and recovery notifications.
Written by Loris Siegenthaler · Maker of BuildCaptainPinning
In the sidebar's Pipelines list, click the pin icon on any pipeline row. Folders and multibranch projects can be browsed into — pin any branch's pipeline. Pinned pipelines appear in their own sidebar section and in the menu bar popover, and they are what the menu bar icon watches.
Reading the icon
The menu bar icon summarizes all pinned pipelines at once: it animates while any build runs, and signals failure or instability the moment a pinned build goes red — worst state wins. When everything is green you get a calm anchor.
The popover
Click the icon for the popover: every pinned pipeline with its latest run, status, and duration, plus Run buttons and a jump into the app. The Run button's behavior (parameter form, defaults, or both) is configurable in Settings.
Notifications
With notifications enabled, BuildCaptain alerts you when a pinned pipeline fails and again when it recovers — and stays quiet otherwise. Builds you start from the app additionally notify when they finish.
Menu-bar-only mode
Turn off the Dock icon in Settings to run BuildCaptain as a pure menu bar app, and enable launch at login so your pipelines are always a glance away.