[hkarthik]

For us it has just become extremely fragile. We often lose executors and the Jenkins processes tend to leak memory.

In general we probably restart executor machines quite often just due to the above issues alone.

Also our Devops folks have complained about the lack of automation around Jenkins. If they could monitor it better, we could probably be a lot more proactive about dealing with our problems around it.

If you're looking at CI for your next project, I would look at either a hosted solution like CircleCI or TravisCI Pro. Don't jump straight to self-hosted CI until you outgrow these solutions.