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Date Published
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Bowen Chen
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2583
Language
English
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2

Summary

Monitoring your CI/CD system is crucial to optimize workflows and create best practices that minimize pipeline slowdowns and respond to CI issues. To achieve this, platform teams must collaborate with development teams to foster effective relationships and cultivate shared visibility into tests and CI pipelines. By configuring self-service tools that notify developers of new flaky tests and test performance regressions, platform teams can help developers identify, investigate, and remediate software testing issues. This includes creating dashboards that aggregate key test metrics, such as Datadog's out-of-the-box (OOTB) test visibility dashboard, which helps teams identify trends in flaky tests, performance regressions, and failing/slow test suites. Additionally, platform engineers can configure monitors that automatically detect new test issues in real-time, notify the appropriate individuals or teams about new flaky tests, test failures, and performance regressions, and provide developers with tools to track long-term trends in their software tests and identify new issues. By providing these visibility tools, both platform and development teams can analyze testing trends across their organization's repositories, gain quick insights into test executions, and make data-driven decisions to improve the reliability and performance of their CI/CD systems.