Build Monitor

Build monitor is a tool which you can use to measure your build times in Visual studio over time. I started this since I noticed my build times increased with a growing code-base and got curious about how much time I spend idle per week/month/year just waiting for the builds, so I can evaluate how much effort I can spend to optimize the builds later on.

It is open source so you are welcome to contribute ( https://github.com/vinntreus/BuildMonitor ). 

How it works

When any solution is opened, the extension is loaded and will start output to a output-window called "Build monitor" (Found in View -> Output -> Change "Show output from:" dropdown-list). It measures solution total build time and each project built. After every build the data is also saved to a file on disk (see output-window for path) as json.

Version 1.4

• Extend support to Visual Studio 2015

Version 1.3

• Upgrade to Visual Studio 2013 (still supporting Visual Studio 2012)

Version 1.2

• Extended build time output format from ms to h:m:s:ms

Version 1.1

• Upgrade to Visual Studio 2012
• Change date-format to ISO 8601
• Indent stored JSON

Version 1.0.0.1

• Bugfix - json was saved in wrong format (just upgrade and the file will be corrected when you open any solution)

Version 1.0 

• Output data to "Build monitor" output-window-pane
• Total build time in ms for each solution build
• Build time in ms for each project
• Total session build time in ms
• Saves all data as json

Next step is to create a service which uses the data and aggregates and visualize it in some excellent way.