FASTBuild Monitor

Real-time monitoring of FASTBuild distributed builds directly inside VS Code, with a Gantt-chart timeline, worker tracking, and build statistics.

Features

• Timeline/Gantt chart — Canvas-rendered visualization of build jobs across workers, color-coded by status
• Job tooltips — Hover over any job bar to see name, host, status, and duration
• Worker panel — Live active/total/cached job counts per worker host
• Build statistics — Total, active, succeeded, cached, and failed counts
• Progress bar — Overall build progress percentage
• Recent jobs list — Scrollable feed of the latest jobs with status and timing
• Status bar integration — See build progress/status at a glance in the VS Code status bar
• Zoom & scroll — Ctrl+wheel zoom, plus zoom in/out/reset buttons
• Auto-start — Optionally begin monitoring as soon as the panel opens

Usage

1. Open VS Code
2. Run FASTBuild Monitor: Show Build Monitor from the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P)
3. Launch your FASTBuild build with the -monitor flag:

   FBuild.exe -monitor ...
   

4. The monitor will pick up build events in real-time

Commands

Settings