Jenkins Zapier integrationAutomate Jenkins with Zapier.
The Jenkins Zapier integration gives you 1 trigger, 0 actions and 0 searches. One instant trigger that hears every job status your server reports, so a failed build can reach the right person before anyone opens the dashboard.
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What the Jenkins Zapier integration actually does
Jenkins is the server that runs your repeated jobs: builds, test suites, scheduled scripts. The Zapier side is narrow on purpose. It listens. Each time Jenkins reports the status of a job, a Zap (the automation you build on Zapier, one starting event followed by the steps it sets off) can pick that report up and hand it to another tool.
Three things you can build with New Job Status Notification:
A failure alert that lands where the team already talks. The trigger fires, a filter keeps only the bad outcomes, and a chat tool posts the message. Nobody has to watch the Jenkins tab.
A build log your managers can read. Every status becomes a row in a spreadsheet or a record in a database tool, which gives non-developers a history they can sort without a Jenkins login.
A ticket opened when a release job breaks. The status report feeds your issue tracker, so the follow-up exists before the stand-up.
Now the honest part. Zapier cannot start a Jenkins job, cannot change one, and cannot look anything up on your server: there is no action and no search for this app. If your plan is to launch builds from a form or a CRM, Zapier is the wrong door. You would have to go through a separate route outside this integration.
If you are weighing tools, the same app exists as a Jenkins n8n integration and a Jenkins Make integration; compare what each one exposes before you commit.
Zapier vocabulary in one minute
Seven words come back on this page. Here they are in plain English, once.
- Zap
- The automation itself: one event that starts it, then one or more steps that run every single time that event happens.
- Trigger
- The event that starts the Zap. Once the Zap is on, Zapier sits and waits for it. Here, a job status coming from Jenkins.
- Action
- What the Zap does after it starts: the step that writes, sends or moves something for you in another tool.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills. One action that completes successfully is one task, and your plan counts those.
- Instant vs polling
- An instant trigger is reported by the app the moment it happens. A polling trigger is checked by Zapier on a timer instead.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap continue only when what arrived meets your condition, and quietly stops it otherwise.
- Multi-step Zap
- Anything beyond one trigger plus one action. Add a filter or a second action and you are there, which means a paid plan.
What a Jenkins Zap really costs
Jenkins is not a premium app, so it works on the free plan. The trigger itself never costs a task.
- Premium appNo, free plan works
- Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps
- Trigger costZero tasks
- This triggerInstant on every plan
You pay in tasks only when an action succeeds: a status that goes to chat is one task, a status that goes to chat and to a spreadsheet is two. A failed action is not counted. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, but each Zap stops at two steps. The moment you add a filter to keep only failures, it becomes multi-step and needs a paid plan. The polling grid below does not touch this trigger: it is instant on every plan.
Connect Jenkins to Zapier in three steps
- 01
Open your connections
In Zapier, go to the Apps page of your account and click + Add connection. A connection is your Jenkins account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every Zap that needs it.
- 02
Pick Jenkins and sign in
Type Jenkins in the search box of the dialog, select it, then click Add connection. A new tab opens: sign in to Jenkins there with an account that can see the jobs you care about.
- 03
Grant access and check
Approve the access Zapier asks for. From then on, every new Zap can reuse this connection. If a job belongs to someone else, your account still needs read access to it.
Your first Zap: failed builds straight to the team chat
GoalPost a chat message every time a Jenkins job reports a bad outcome, and ignore the rest.
- 01
Create the Zap
Start a new Zap, choose Jenkins as the app that starts it, then New Job Status Notification as the event. Select the Jenkins connection you just added.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run a job on Jenkins, then test. Zapier brings back the three most recent items, so you pick a real status report and build the next steps on actual data.
- 03
Add the filter
Click the plus icon, choose Filter, then set the field to look at, the rule and the value. Keep to text rules for text values, or the filter never passes.
- 04
Add the message
Add your chat tool as the action and map the job details from the trigger into the message. Test this step and read what came back before going further.
- 05
Publish
Click Publish to switch the Zap on. From now on each matching status costs one task, and the filter itself bills nothing when it stops a run.
Jenkins trigger
1 event starts a Zap when something happens in Jenkins, and one of them is instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.
New Job Status Notification
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Catches job status notifications sent via the Notficiation Plugin”
Starts your Zap each time Jenkins reports where a job stands, picked up through the notification plugin on your server. It is the only entry point this integration offers, so every Jenkins Zap you build begins here, and a filter right behind it decides which reports deserve attention.
When a Jenkins Zap breaks
Zapier attaches no help article to Jenkins, so the failures worth knowing are the general limits of any Zap, applied to job statuses.
Read these four cases before you switch the Zap on. If a Zap still misbehaves, see our Zapier troubleshooting page.
Old builds never show up
A Zap only reacts to statuses reported after you switch it on. Jobs that ran before stay out, and moving that history is a separate job.The Zap feeds itself
If the action writes back to the very place the trigger listens to, the Zap sets itself off again and again and eats your task count fast.A burst gets held back
When a huge batch arrives at once, after a migration for example, Zapier's flood protection can hold the whole run back.The free plan refuses the filter
Adding a filter or a second action turns the Zap into a multi-step Zap. On the free plan, that shape needs a paid plan first.
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