Metrics

  • Lead time, MTTR, change failure rate, deploy frequency.
  • Stage timing (queue, build, test, deploy); flake rate; retry counts.

Tracing & logs

  • Trace pipeline executions with build SHA, branch, trigger source; annotate stage spans.
  • Structured logs with status, duration, infra node; keep artifacts linked.

Guardrails

  • Quality gates (tests, lint, security scans) per PR; fail fast on criticals.
  • Retry budget per job to avoid infinite flake loops.
  • Rollback hooks + auto-stop on repeated failures.

Ops

  • Parallelize where safe; cache dependencies; pin tool versions.
  • Alert on SLA breaches (queue time, total duration) and rising flake rates.
  • Keep dashboards per repo/team; trend regressions release to release.