diff --git a/nova/scheduler/host_manager.py b/nova/scheduler/host_manager.py
index bb9624a2a3f4..8028b5e939b6 100644
--- a/nova/scheduler/host_manager.py
+++ b/nova/scheduler/host_manager.py
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ class HostState(object):
         # Additional host information from the compute node stats:
         self.num_instances = 0
         self.num_io_ops = 0
+        self.failed_builds = 0
 
         # Other information
         self.host_ip = None
diff --git a/nova/tests/unit/scheduler/test_host_manager.py b/nova/tests/unit/scheduler/test_host_manager.py
index a4fc0d840fbc..a42370da8fd5 100644
--- a/nova/tests/unit/scheduler/test_host_manager.py
+++ b/nova/tests/unit/scheduler/test_host_manager.py
@@ -1455,3 +1455,5 @@ class HostStateTestCase(test.NoDBTestCase):
         # Because compute record not ready, the update of free ram
         # will not happen and the value will still be 0
         self.assertEqual(0, host.free_ram_mb)
+        # same with failed_builds
+        self.assertEqual(0, host.failed_builds)