We implement Observability for our applications and systems so that we can gain insight into problems as they occur and resolve them as quickly as possible; however, despite the need for it, there has been a lack of movement in Observability for CI/CD pipelines. CI/CD pipelines are part of the crucial backbone that runs our applications. We rely on them to build and deploy our applications, so it can be extremely frustrating when they start failing or behaving in unexpected ways – and we have no way to observe them.

In this session, Adriana Villela and Reese Lee will share how to unlock the superpowers of Observability for your CI/CD pipelines: why it’s needed, what makes a pipeline observable, how to do it with OpenTelemetry, as well as what additional supporting tooling is needed and available to make it happen. You will also learn about the challenges that we must overcome in order to have truly observable pipelines.