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Overview

Blacksmith’s CI Analytics dashboard provides a single view of your CI pipeline’s performance, failure rate, and costs. All users within your organization who have access to GitHub can log in at app.blacksmith.sh to explore the dashboard.

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Basics

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Jobs

The dashboard displays every job run across all your repositories. Jobs View You can filter and analyze jobs by repository, runner size, job status, and more, enabling you to answer questions like:
  • “What is the failure rate of my jobs?”
  • “How long does this job typically take to complete?”
  • “What is affecting the performance of my slowest job?”

Zoom In: Finding out if a Job is Failing More Than Usual

For instance, Blacksmith’s dashboard helps identify if a job is failing more often than usual. By filtering jobs by repository, you can assess failure rates and compare them to previous months.Jobs Zoom In

Zoom In: Finding out What is Affecting the Performance of Your Slowest Job

Blacksmith’s dashboard helps identify what is affecting the performance of your slowest job. By hovering over the “p99” in the job duration distribution chart, you can see a breakdown of your slowest job’s steps and the time taken for each step.Jobs Zoom In

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Caches

The dashboard also provides insights into every cache entry across your repositories. Cache View You can filter and analyze cache entries by repository, cache key, last hit time, and more, to answer questions like:
  • “What is my total cache usage?”
  • “What cache entries are currently available?”
  • “How many recent cache hits have I had?”

Zoom In: Finding the Last Cache Hit for a Specific Key

Blacksmith makes it simple to track when a cache key was last hit. You can filter by repository to check the last hit time of cache entries, ensuring the cache key is functioning as expected.Cache Zoom In

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Costs

The dashboard also provides visibility into all Blacksmith usage and billing. Costs View You can break down costs by repository to better understand CI expenses and ask questions such as:
  • “How much more did I spend this month?”
  • “Which repositories are consuming the most resources?”
  • “How much am I spending on storage for caches?”

Zoom In: Finding out which repositories are consuming the most resources

With Blacksmith you can track spending across repositories to identify how your teams and services are consuming compute and storage resources.Costs Zoom In
We are continuously working on additional visualizations. If there is something specific you’d like to see, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected].

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Pricing

There is no additional cost for using this feature. For all other pricing, please visit our pricing page.