Build monitors are an essential part of any CI setup. Build monitors provide at-a-glance visibility on the status of the builds that concern a team. They are generally positioned such that any team member can quickly know the status of the builds while doing their work.
Such tools to provide information on the status of the builds are in line with one of the important practices of CI, as mentioned in Chapter 1, Introduction, providing visibility on what's happening with the builds.
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Generally, build monitors are set up with a display (TV/monitor) that shows them in fullscreen. The display is connected to a computer that has the client/browser needed for the build monitor. These days, small computers such as the Raspberry Pi are used to drive build monitors rather than desktops/laptops.
There are many plugins and tools that can be used as build monitors when using TeamCity as the CI tool. Some of these are discussed in this section.
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