"From a technical standpoint, the solution relies on a lightweight serverless function (such as an AWS Lambda) that receives GitLab webhooks via an API Gateway endpoint, formats the payload as structured logs, and ships them into Grafana Cloud Logs. Users can then use LogQL queries to analyze CI/CD activity by project, deployment success rates, or build times. Furthermore, these logs can be combined with application performance data in Grafana dashboards, for example, seeing error rates plotted alongside specific deploys or code changes."
"The core challenge addressed is the fragmentation between source control, CI/CD tooling, and observability systems. Many teams struggle with disconnected dashboards: developers may check GitLab for pipeline status; operations review logs in Grafana; and neither view is tied directly to underlying metrics or deployments, causing slower incident response and manual correlation. The GitLab-Grafana integration closes that gap by funneling structured CI/CD events into a unified log stream, enabling teams to monitor pipeline health, deployment frequencies, and correlate changes with system metrics."
An open-source serverless solution links GitLab CI/CD webhooks directly into Grafana Cloud Logs, making CI/CD events available within Grafana's observability platform. A lightweight serverless function (for example AWS Lambda) receives webhooks via an API Gateway endpoint, formats the payload as structured logs, and ships them into Grafana Cloud Logs built on Loki. Teams can query CI/CD telemetry with LogQL to analyze pipeline health, deployment success rates, and build times. Logs can be correlated with application performance metrics in Grafana dashboards to visualize error rates alongside specific deploys and drive alerts based on deployment trends and compliance needs.
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