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How to monitor a deployment with Deployment Status

Deployment Status is a monitoring screen, not something you create. Here is how to use it to watch a deployment through and act on the result.

By Dipojjal Chakrabarti · Founder & Editor, Salesforce DictionaryLast updated Jun 16, 2026

Deployment Status is a monitoring screen, not something you create. Here is how to use it to watch a deployment through and act on the result.

  1. Open the page

    From Setup, type Deployment in the Quick Find box and select Deployment Status. The list loads with any in-progress, pending, and completed deployments from roughly the last 30 days.

  2. Watch a live deployment

    For a deployment that is running, read the two progress charts: one for component processing and one for Apex test execution. The test chart is your early signal for whether a production deploy will clear the 75 percent coverage gate.

  3. Check the result and open details

    Once it lands in the completed section as Succeeded or Failed, click View Details on a failure to see per-component results and the exact error messages. Fix the named components and redeploy.

  4. Quick Deploy a fresh validation

    If you validated first and the validation is still within its window, use Quick Deploy on that entry to commit without re-running tests. Confirm the validation completion time before relying on it.

View Errors / View Detailsremember

Expands an in-progress or completed deployment to per-component status and full error text, the actionable debugging surface for failures.

Cancelremember

Stops a queued or in-progress deployment. Clean for queued jobs; an in-progress cancel aborts as safely as the platform can but may not be instant.

Quick Deployremember

Commits a recently validated component set without re-running Apex tests, available when the validation succeeded within the documented window and covers the same components.

Gotchas
  • History is kept only for about 30 days. Export details you need to keep before the entry ages off the list.
  • The 75 percent Apex coverage rule is enforced on production deploys only, so a deploy that passed in a sandbox can still fail in production.
  • A Quick Deploy validation that is older than its window has expired; the deploy then runs the full test cycle when you least expect it.
  • Only one deployment runs to an org at a time. A second deploy queues as Pending instead of running in parallel.

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