Monitoring your builds with Meercode

Last updated at 2021-06-21

Meercode is a real-time build monitoring, dashboarding, and analytics solution for CI/CD pipelines. It integrates with your Bitrise account smoothly to provide your team with valuable insights into your build data.

Among other things, with Meercode you can:

Create dashboards to monitor running builds for the duration, estimated completion time, and overtime status.
Monitor recently completed builds for status, duration, and completion date/time.
Cancel or restart the builds directly from the dashboard.
Control which repositories to watch.
Create reports from historical build data.
Create shareable links of the dashboard to share with team members or to show on the office TV.

With Meercode’s analysis and visualization tools:

Developers can easily monitor the status of triggered builds.
Team members can see what their teammates are building.
Team managers can monitor the throughput of the team and the performance of individual team members.

Integrating Meercode with Bitrise ⚓

Signing up for the beta

For now, the Meercode add-on is in a beta phase. To apply for the beta, contact our support team and send them the app slug of your app or apps for which you want the Meercode add-on enabled.

To monitor your Bitrise builds with Meercode:

An admin on the app’s team must enable the Meercode add-on for your app.
Once the add-on is enabled, other team members on the app must authorize the add-on on their own account.

Enabling Meercode for an app

Please note that only admins can enable the add-on for an app. Read more about user roles in our guide.

Integrating Meercode with a Personal Access Token

Previously, you could integrate Meercode by using your Bitrise Personal Access Token on Meercode’s own website. This method no longer works! To monitor your builds with Meercode, you need the Meercode add-on.

Enabling the add-on as an admin ⚓

To enable the add-on for a specific app:

Log in to your Bitrise account.
On the Dashboard, find the app you need.
On the app’s page, go to the Add-ons tab.
Next to Meercode, click the Enable add-on button.
In the pop-up window, you can see what access rights the add-on needs. Click Enable add-on to grant these rights.

Authorizing the add-on as a user ⚓

After an admin enables the Meercode add-on, each user on the app’s team must authorize the add-on on their own account.

Revoking authorization

Please note that during the beta phase, there is no way to revoke this authorization. An admin can disable the add-on for the app at any time; in that case, all users lose access to the add-on.

Log in to your Bitrise account.
On the Dashboard, find the app you need.
On the app’s page, go to the Add-ons tab.
Next to Meercode, click the Go to add-on button.
On the next page, you can see what access rights the add-on needs. Click Authorize add-on to grant these rights.

CI build monitoring on Meercode ⚓

To monitor your builds:

Log in to your Meercode account.
Open Dashboard Tab from the left menu to see an overview of your running and completed builds.

On the top of the page, you will see builds still in progress. You can monitor the current duration and estimated completion time.
Below that, completed builds are listed as cards. On every card, you can see the completion status and other information of the build for the last 10 runs.
The Share button on the top-right corner allows you to create public links to view your dashboard. These secret links can be securely shared with your team members.

CI Build Insights ⚓

Open the Insights tab to access reports summarized from your historical build data.
Use the filters on the top of the page to limit the results for a given date range, provider or organization.