Plugin Types in TeamCity

TeamCity mainly consists of two parts:

1. Server which gathers information while builds are running

2. Agents which run builds and send information to server

Plugins can be written for server and for agent. Aside from that plugins are divided by their types:

• Build runners

• VCS plugins

• Notifiers

• User authentication plugins

• Extensions

Extensions can modify some aspects of TeamCity behavior. There are several extension points on the server and on the agent, for example, it is possible to format stack trace on the web the way you need it or modify build status text, Extensions.

Plugins can also modify TeamCity web UI. They can provide custom content to the existing pages (again there are several extension points provided for that), or create new pages with their own UI, Web UI Extensions.