Introducing CI/CD Watch: Monitor, Measure, and Optimise Your Pipelines

Craig CookFounder6 min read

If your team uses more than one CI/CD provider — or even just one with dozens of repos — you know the pain. Pipeline status is scattered across tabs. Costs are invisible. Flaky tests waste hours. And when someone asks “how is the team shipping?”, the answer is a shrug.

We built CI/CD Watch to fix that. It is a single dashboard that connects to GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, and Jenkins — and gives you real-time monitoring, DORA metrics, cost tracking, stability analysis, and test insights across all of them.

CI/CD Watch dashboard showing live pipeline runs across multiple providers with status, duration, and branch details
Pipeline runs from every provider in one place — filterable by repository, branch, status, and trigger type.

The problem we are solving

CI/CD is the backbone of modern software delivery, but it is surprisingly hard to observe. Each provider has its own dashboard, its own data model, and its own blind spots. The result is a set of common problems that affect everyone from individual developers to engineering leadership:

  • No unified view. If your organisation uses multiple providers, there is no single place to see all your pipeline runs.
  • Invisible costs. CI compute costs are buried in billing pages. Developer wait time — the real cost — is not tracked at all.
  • No delivery metrics. DORA metrics are the industry standard for measuring delivery performance, but most teams do not track them because collecting the data is too hard.
  • Flaky tests go unfixed. Everyone knows which pipelines are unreliable, but nobody has the data to prioritise which ones to fix first.

What CI/CD Watch gives you

For developers: stay in flow

Stop switching tabs to check if your build passed. CI/CD Watch for developers gives you real-time build status, test failure drill-downs, and a Picture-in-Picture mode that floats a mini-dashboard over your editor. When a test fails, you see the test name, error message, and stack trace — not a wall of CI logs.

Picture-in-Picture dashboard floating over an IDE showing recent build statuses with pass/fail indicators and durations
Picture-in-Picture mode — your build status stays visible while you code.

For engineering managers: real numbers, not vibes

When leadership asks how the team is performing, you need data. CI/CD Watch for engineering managers calculates all four DORA metrics automatically — Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Change Failure Rate, and Mean Time to Recovery. Trend charts show whether you are improving or degrading over 7, 30, or 90 days. Alerts fire when metrics regress so you catch problems early.

DORA metrics dashboard showing deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery with per-repository breakdowns
DORA metrics calculated automatically from your pipeline data — no manual tagging required.

For tech leads: see the true cost of CI

CI costs are not just compute. Developer wait time is the hidden cost that nobody tracks. CI/CD Watch for tech leads breaks down both — compute charges and engineer-hours lost to slow or failing pipelines. Waste is categorised automatically: failed runs, cancelled runs, duplicate triggers, and flaky reruns. Each category shows estimated cost impact so you can quantify what to fix first.

For platform and DevOps teams: one pane of glass

Six providers, six dashboards, zero unified view — until now. CI/CD Watch for platform teams consolidates everything into a single dashboard. Every pipeline is classified as healthy, flaky, or broken. Duration trend charts track p50 and p95 build times. Optimisation suggestions are generated from pipeline config analysis — parallelise jobs, add caching, split test suites — specific to each provider and framework.

Connect in under two minutes

CI/CD Watch connects to your CI/CD provider with a standard OAuth flow or API token. There is nothing to install in your pipelines — no agents, no plugins, no YAML changes. Your pipeline data starts flowing within seconds, and metrics, costs, and stability classifications appear automatically.

Supported providers:

  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Bitbucket Pipelines
  • CircleCI
  • Azure DevOps
  • Jenkins

Beyond the dashboard

The web dashboard is where most teams start, but CI/CD Watch also offers:

  • Public API — query pipeline runs, DORA metrics, costs, and performance data programmatically
  • MCP Server — ask Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf about your pipelines with CI/CD data grounded in reality
  • CLI — monitor pipelines and check metrics from your terminal
  • Slack — get pipeline failure alerts in team channels and personal DMs for your own builds

Get started

CI/CD Watch is free to start. Connect your first provider, and your pipeline data will be flowing in minutes. No credit card required.

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