Monitoring pipeline tasks and their performance
In this section, we will cover two different approaches to monitoring tasks and performance:
- Using the pipeline’s user interface
- Using dashboards
Let’s dig into the user interface first.
Using the pipeline’s user interface
Metrics about the duration of your pipeline, jobs, and tasks are available throughout the user interface to emphasize the importance of execution time, as can be seen in the following screenshot:
Figure 7.1 – Duration metrics in the pipeline summary
These duration metrics help you immediately understand the duration of the pipeline and all the jobs that are executed within it. You can click on each job and see the individual step duration to determine whether there are any tasks that you might need to review and improve in any way possible, as shown in the following figure:
Figure 7.2 – Duration metrics...