Last week I got a question from one of our internal teams because they got the following error message when trying to execute a build:
Your account has no free minutes remaining. Add a hosted pipeline to run more builds or releases.
Until recently we were using private build agents, but we decided to switch completely to hosted builds.
Checking the remaining build minutes
Here are the steps to check the remaining build minutes:
- Open the Azure DevOps site of your organisation
- Click on Organization settings in the left corner
- Click On Retention and parallel jobs
- Switch to the Parallel jobs tab
- Here you can see the available job pipelines and the amount of minutes remaining(if you are using the free tier)
- To purchase parallel jobs, you can click on the available link. You will be redirect to the Visual Studio marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms.build-release-hosted-pipelines
- Clicking on the Get button will walk you through a wizard to purchase extra parallel jobs.