Emergency Stop Pipelines

A Jenkins plugin that provides an emergency stop button to immediately halt all running and queued Jenkins builds.

• Global Emergency Stop — Stop all running builds and queued items across the entire Jenkins instance from the top navigation bar.
• Folder-Level Emergency Stop — Stop all running builds and queued items within a specific folder and all of its subfolders recursively.
• Job-Level Emergency Stop — Stop all running builds and queued items for a single job from its sidebar.
• Permission-Gated — All actions are restricted to users with ADMINISTER permission. Non-admin users never see the action links.
• CSRF Protection — All destructive actions use POST requests with Jenkins CSRF crumb handling.
• Audit Trail — Build interruptions include CauseOfInterruption.UserInterruption with the triggering user's name.
• Result Counting — The global stop page reports how many pipelines were stopped vs. not stopped.
• Auto-Redirect — The success page auto-redirects to the Jenkins dashboard after 5 seconds.

Install the plugin from the Jenkins Plugin Manager or download the latest HPI from the releases page.

After installing the plugin, an Emergency STOP Pipelines button (yellow warning icon) appears in the top navigation bar for users with ADMINISTER permission. Clicking it navigates to a confirmation page. After confirming, all running builds across the entire Jenkins instance are interrupted and all queued items are cancelled.

The success page shows the number of pipelines stopped and not stopped, and auto-redirects to the dashboard after 5 seconds.

A Emerg. Stop Folder Pipelines button appears in the sidebar for folders where the user has ADMINISTER permission. It stops all running builds and queued items within that folder and all nested subfolders.

An Emerg. Stop All Builds button appears in the sidebar for individual jobs where the user has ADMINISTER permission. It stops all running builds and queued items for that specific job.

• Builds are interrupted with Result.ABORTED and a CauseOfInterruption.UserInterruption("EMERGENCY STOP by <username>") is recorded in the build log.
• Queue items are cancelled at all three scopes (global, folder, job).
• The folder-level action recursively traverses all subfolders to find and stop builds.
• The global action iterates over Jenkins.getAllItems(Job.class) to cover the entire instance.
• If a running build does not have an active executor, it is counted as "not stopped" and a warning is logged.

• Jenkins 2.568 or later
• Java 21 or later
• cloudbees-folder plugin (for folder-level stop support)

No additional configuration is required. The plugin works out of the box after installation.

git clone https://github.com/jenkinsci/emergency-stop-pipelines-plugin.git
cd emergency-stop-pipelines-plugin
mvn clean verify

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mvn spotless:apply
mvn spotless:check

Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.