# šŸ”” let me know when my build is done **URL:** \ **Category:** Features Requests\ **Created:** [December 7, 2018, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/let-me-know-when-my-build-is-done/144 "2018-12-07T07:01:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![therealbnut](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.buildkite.community/therealbnut/32/390_2.png) [@therealbnut](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/therealbnut)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2018, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/let-me-know-when-my-build-is-done/144/1 "2018-12-07T07:01:04Z")
I know our longest builds take about 35 minutes, so I sometimes crudely set an alarm to check on it. However this doesnā€™t let me know when a build finishes (fails) much earlier, or if it takes a few minutes longer. A simple but effective solution would be to have buildkite build tabs make a ding, and/or do a local [notification](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) when the build finishes. Ideally it would be easy to opt-in or out, only happen for tabs that are on a specific build (not branch/org). Perhaps the build [page](https://buildkite.com/org/pipe/builds/1234) can have a non-persistent checkbox on it? I think the notification would be much more useful for me, as I donā€™t always have my audio turned on. ---
**Author:** ![jacob](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.buildkite.community/jacob/32/349_2.png) [@jacob](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/jacob)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 2:58am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/let-me-know-when-my-build-is-done/144/2 "2018-12-12T02:58:02Z")
There is [CCMenu](http://ccmenu.org/) (OSX) and CCTray (Windows) which can notify you when builds run/finish/error. Buildkite do have [documentation](https://buildkite.com/docs/integrations/cc-menu) on this integration if you want to give it a whirl. ---
**Author:** ![jmendiara](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.buildkite.community/jmendiara/32/355_2.png) [@jmendiara](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/jmendiara)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 8:56am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/let-me-know-when-my-build-is-done/144/3 "2018-12-12T08:56:03Z")
Oh! this can be a use case for [IFTTT Integration](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/ifttt-integration/160) ---
**Author:** ![anon85971592](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@anon85971592](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/anon85971592)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/let-me-know-when-my-build-is-done/144/4 "2018-12-12T10:32:28Z")
> [@therealbnut](#): > > I know our longest builds take about 35 minutes, so I sometimes crudely set an alarm to check on it. However this doesnā€™t let me know when a build finishes (fails) much earlier, or if it takes a few minutes longer. So Iā€™ve actually spiked this out a few times, but Iā€™m afraid I kept getting stuck with some weird edge cases and it never managed to make it past that prototype phase. Having said thatā€¦I think we can do better! ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/buildkite1/original/1X/71f1d47813af2fe9328ded6f4988ddcd737c24ef.jpeg) This is a thing weā€™ve been cooking up over the last year or so. Itā€™s still very much in the _pre-alpha_ stage. It current replicates the behaviour of the ā€œMy Buildsā€ dropdown. It even shows fancy notifications: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/buildkite1/original/1X/2a39fee039463aa444fa1432bf759239be8e2770.jpeg) If youā€™re on OSX and youā€™re interested in giving it a go, I can add send you a private invite! (send me an email at [keith@buildkite.com](mailto:keith@buildkite.com)) _(just promise you wonā€™t tell anyone about it and keep it a secret šŸ˜›)_ I might mark this topic as solved for now (since our current plan is to aim for an actual app instead of browser notifications) - but that could change again in the future! ---
**Author:** ![therealbnut](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.buildkite.community/therealbnut/32/390_2.png) [@therealbnut](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/therealbnut)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 11:08am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/let-me-know-when-my-build-is-done/144/5 "2018-12-12T11:08:43Z")
Thanks @jacob for the suggestion, Iā€™ve tried them before, but Iā€™ve found their UI was clumsy, and they were way to noisy for what I was interested in. ---
**Author:** ![gerry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.buildkite.community/gerry/32/489_2.png) [@gerry](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/gerry)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 3:55am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/let-me-know-when-my-build-is-done/144/6 "2019-03-30T03:55:31Z")
@therealbnut I agree regarding CCMenu. The biggest downfall for me is that you canā€™t filter based on author, only pipeline or branch. I ended up using [https://buildkite.com/organizations/](https://buildkite.com/organizations/)\/services which works very well if you use something like slack. You can set it to send you a message whenever one of your builds passes or fails. Quite a bit of setup involved and not easy to roll out ot others in your team, but it works quite well as a temporary solution. ---
**Author:** ![liamdawson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.buildkite.community/liamdawson/32/841_2.png) [@liamdawson](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/liamdawson)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/let-me-know-when-my-build-is-done/144/7 "2020-07-29T02:48:24Z")
I built a CLI tool Iā€™m using for this purpose, and found this topic while looking for one about read-only GraphQL access šŸ˜† > **[liamdawson/buildkite\_waiter](https://github.com/liamdawson/buildkite_waiter)** > > Notify when a Buildkite build finishes. Contribute to liamdawson/buildkite\_waiter development by creating an account on GitHub.