The most interesting part of this is the very last paragraph. There really *isn'...

qznc · on April 29, 2019

I never understood the purpose of dashboards. In the context of CI, I see three use cases and there is always a better solution than a dashboard.

1. Detect broken builds. It is better to actively notify somebody by mail, chat, whatever.

2. Prevent broken master. It is better to reject the pull request/patch before it becomes a problem.

3. Analyse the system. It is better to download the data and enable the use of whatever analysis tools are suitable.

jayd16 · on April 30, 2019

Direct emails can't replace the collaborative "hey why are these still red" moments without spamming the whole team.

They can show non-event information such as build time trends at a glance.

bradrydzewski · on April 29, 2019

There was an interesting community-driven project to create a dashboard for Drone, see https://github.com/drone/drone-wall. I would love to see more like it.