# Running Builds Count is misleading
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/running-builds-count-is-misleading/6615
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Tags:** implemented
**Created:** [October 15, 2019, 3:56pm UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/running-builds-count-is-misleading/6615 "2019-10-15T15:56:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@sa\_thomaslohrum](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/sa_thomaslohrum)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2019, 3:56pm UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/running-builds-count-is-misleading/6615/1 "2019-10-15T15:56:12Z")
Hi,
the count value shown for icon “Running Builds” on the top panel “All Projects” can be misleading. If a build is running for a configuration, which is hidden by the user, the count will not reflect this state. My expectation is different. Regardless of the visible state of configurations, i expect the running build count to show the absolute number of running builds. We use the build count as an indicator for activities on the build server.
When installing Continua updates, we notify users by mail and check the running build count is zero, before installing the update. Today it happened, that a long running build got stopped, when we installed the latest update. After some research we realized that our monitoring of the build count did give us unexpected results. The issue was indeed, that i had that configuration hidden, which was running the build. The UI should make clear, that this is actually the count of the visible configurations.
However, in my opinion, i want the UI to show the count of running builds, regardless of the visibility to the user. This also makes more sense to me, as the icon count for the “available concurrent build licences” shows the absolute count for the build server.
Thomas
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### Author:  [@Sparky](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Sparky)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 4:22am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/running-builds-count-is-misleading/6615/2 "2019-10-16T04:22:55Z")
Hi Thomas,
We agree that this is misleading and have now updated the code so that both running and queued count indicators show the count of all builds (regardless of whether they are hidden or not otherwise viewable by the current user due to permissions). If the viewable build count is different, then this will shown in a tooltip on hovering over the indicator.
This will be available in the next version.
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### Author:  [@sa\_thomaslohrum](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/sa_thomaslohrum)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 7:24am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/running-builds-count-is-misleading/6615/3 "2019-10-16T07:24:51Z")
Excellent, thanks a lot Dave 🙂
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### Author:  [@sa\_thomaslohrum](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/sa_thomaslohrum)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2019, 7:03am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/running-builds-count-is-misleading/6615/4 "2019-10-31T07:03:49Z")
Released with Continua CI - 1.9.1.448
Works fine. Thanks a lot.
> [@Continua CI - 1.9.1.448 Released](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/continua-ci-1-9-1-448-released/6627):
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> Hi All, A new version of Continua CI has been uploaded and is available from [Continua CI Downloads](https://www.finalbuilder.com/downloads/continuaci). The latest stable version of Continua is 1.9.1.448. Changes in 1.9.1.448 Update: The DotNet Core property collectors updated to include later versions of the .Net Core runtime and SDK. Update: The queued and running build count indicators in header now show the total number of builds for all users (rather than counting only those viewable by the current user). Update: Improvements to performan…