System Properties for Running the Server

Various aspects of TeamCity's behavior can be customized through a set of JVM options. The options can be specified using the -D parameter passed to the JVM running the TeamCity server or agent. e.g.

-Dteamcity_logs=../logs/

Server-only Properties

Property Name	Description
teamcity.data.path	Specifies the location of configuration and system directories for TeamCity. `config` directory will contain configuration of your TeamCity projects, `system` directory will contain build logs, artifacts, and database files (for HSQLDB database). The default value of this property is $HOME/.BuildServer. You can also use TEAMCITY_DATA_PATH environment variable to specify this directory.
modification.check.interval	Number of seconds between successive polling of VCS servers (TeamCity 2.1 has a default value of 60, whereas it was 30 in TeamCity 2.0). The interval's time starts being counted as soon as the last VCS server poll is finished.

Server and Agent Properties

Property Name	Description
log4j.configuration	The URL of the log4j.xml file to be used for logging in TeamCity (applies both to agent and server). e.g. -Dlog4j.configuration=file:../conf/teamcity-server-log4j.xml
teamcity_log	When the default teamcity-(server/agent)-log4j.xml is used, this specifies the directory which will contain TeamCity logs. By default it points to TeamCity/logs or buildAgent/logs, respectively.

Last modified: 20 April 2023