CI/CD Monitoring
Change Lead Time
Lead Time for Changes: From First Commit to Production
Lead time for changes is simple until two managers disagree. The clock-start choice, the deployment rule, and what to do when the number is too high.
8 min read
DORA Metrics
7 posts tagged with “DORA Metrics”
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CI/CD Monitoring
Pipeline Audit
CI/CD Pipeline Audit: A Practitioner's Health-Check Framework
A CI/CD pipeline audit is a practitioner's health check, not a maturity model. The framework, what to look for, and the prioritised punch list teams act on.
10 min read
CI/CD Monitoring
What to Monitor
What to Monitor in CI/CD: Signals That Close the Loop
Don't monitor everything that can be counted. Monitor the signals that show whether your CI, deploy, recovery, and economic feedback loops are closing.
9 min read
CI/CD Monitoring
What is CI/CD?
What is CI/CD? The Discipline Behind the Pipeline
CI/CD is not a pipeline. It is the discipline of short feedback loops from commit to customer: small batches, fast tests, real deployments that ship.
8 min read
DORA Metrics
Measuring the Five
How to Measure DORA Metrics: A Practical Guide
A practical guide to measuring the five DORA metrics in real CI/CD pipelines, including deployment rework rate (added in 2024). Covers the decisions to settle first, the data sources to use, and the traps to avoid for each metric.
9 min read
GitHub Actions
Build a Dashboard
How to Build a GitHub Actions Dashboard (and What to Track)
The native GitHub Actions view tells you which runs passed, but not whether your CI is healthy. Here's what a proper GitHub Actions dashboard should track — and the practical options for building or buying one.
7 min read
Product
Introducing CI/CD Watch
Introducing CI/CD Watch: Monitor, Measure, and Optimise Your Pipelines
CI/CD Watch is a single dashboard for monitoring pipeline runs, tracking DORA metrics, controlling costs, and catching flaky tests across GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, and Jenkins.
6 min read