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CI pipelines have become an integral part of the development workflow, helping teams automate the continuous building and testing of new updates to application code. The growing importance of CI pipelines has naturally led to a need for increased visibility into their performance. In 2021, Datadog introduced CI Visibility to deliver granular performance metrics for each individual pipeline, allowing you to monitor build duration and related telemetry across all recent commits.

There are hundreds of capabilities on CircleCI that were designed to create the best possible CI/CD experience for our users. But one feature that users often point to as the most valuable on the platform is the CircleCI Insights dashboard. The Insights dashboard provides full visibility into metrics like job status, duration monitoring, and solutions for pipeline optimization.

In the world of IT, there are two main approaches to managing changes—the information technology infrastructure library (ITIL) and continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD). Both have their own benefits and drawbacks, so it’s important to understand the difference between them before deciding which one is right for your organization. In this article, learn about the difference between CI/CD and ITIL, and find out which approach is best for your needs.

We recently announced a new open source project called Grafana Phlare. This highly available continuous profiling data source is built into Grafana core, allowing you to seamlessly monitor your profiling data. With continuous profiling, you can see which parts of your applications are consuming the most resources. You can then use that data to make any necessary tweaks to reduce consumption, which translates to lower costs.