How to build CI/CD observability at scale

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This post details the implementation of a CI/CD observability solution for GitLab self-managed instances. It outlines the challenges of measuring CI/CD performance at scale, proposes a solution architecture involving the gitlab-ci-pipelines-exporter, Prometheus, and Grafana, and provides detailed Kubernetes deployment instructions for these components. It also includes configuration references for the exporter, Prometheus, and Grafana, along with key metrics related to pipeline and job execution.