Logging Who Restarted Jenkins

[Greg Nifor]

Is there a way to log who ordered a Jenkins restart? The log right now just denotes that a restart happened. I would like something like

Mar 30, 2015 9:57:01 PM INFO: Safe-restart started by GregWringle.

Is there anyway I can implement this?

[Daniel Beck]

Audit Trail Plugin records this if done via the /(safe)Restart URLs.

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[Daniel Beck]

If Jenkins is ordered to shut down/restart, the user who ordered the restart should already get logged to jenkins.model.Jenkins:

https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/blob/master/core/src/main/java/jenkins/model/Jenkins.java#L3354
https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/blob/master/core/src/main/java/jenkins/model/Jenkins.java#L3393

Of course, if the user logs into the server and restarts the Jenkins service, it won't get logged this way. There's no way for Jenkins to determine who does it either.

On 31.03.2015, at 19:37, Greg Nifor <whiteho...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Maureen Barger]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Daniel Beck <m...@beckweb.net> wrote:

Of course, if the user logs into the server and restarts the Jenkins service, it won't get logged this way. There's no way for Jenkins to determine who does it either.

You can add it to the script itself if you do it from command line and output to another file on the OS. You have the account used as a login, the script run which probably reflects the action (start|stop|restart) and the time etc.