Runner business logic metrics

Imagine that you have several developers working on a system and you have several integration tests that should pass before you can deploy to a production environment. If speed is important for your business, then you need to build your system quickly. To do this, there have to be GitLab Runners available and ready to run jobs. If they are unavailable or they perform badly, your development will slow down and so will your business. What follows are some business logic metrics that are viewable in Prometheus.

Key metrics to watch

There are a lot of metrics available, but let's look at some that have proven useful in the past:

• gitlab_runner_jobs: It is wise to monitor the number of pending...