GitLab's unifiied and integrated monitoring strategies

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This post details how GitLab's integrated monitoring capabilities, combined with advanced deployment strategies like canary deployments and feature flags, enable safe and low-risk releases. It highlights the Environment Dashboard for a cross-project view, the CD pipeline for incremental rollouts and performance testing, and the ability to perform rollbacks. It also explains the configuration and application of feature flags with different strategies and their combination with canary deployments, visualized via the deploy board. Finally, it showcases cluster-wide and pod-specific monitoring dashboards.