CI Failures Don't Just Break Builds: They Break Focus

Continuous Integration (CI) often falters at critical moments, disrupting workflow and leaving teams to repeatedly rerun jobs without addressing root causes. CI Insights was developed to provide visibility into job failures, flakiness, and pipeline inefficiencies, without requiring any configuration changes like YAML edits. The tool aims to identify which CI jobs fail most frequently, whether they are truly broken or just flaky, and how much time is lost due to reruns, thereby offering insights into the real impact of CI malfunctions on team productivity. The goal is to transform CI from a neglected component of engineering processes into a transparent system that highlights underlying issues and inefficiencies. Currently in beta for GitHub Actions users, CI Insights offers real-time observability, tracking metrics such as job flakiness, slowdown trends, and deployment frequency to better manage and improve CI pipelines.