2026-02-02, 16:00–16:25, B.1.011
Modern infrastructure teams manage CI/CD pipelines across diverse tools but lack standardized observability, creating blind spots in deployment workflows.
This talk demonstrates event-driven observability using CDEvents, a vendor-neutral specification for continuous delivery events. See real deployment data visualized in Grafana: deployment frequency, promotion delays between environments, and pipeline duration trends—collected from GitHub Actions, artifact registries, and ArgoCD.
Learn the open source architecture (CDviz collector + PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB + Grafana), incremental adoption path, and how standardized events enable future automation—providing pipeline observability without vendor lock-in.
Attendees will learn:
- Why CI/CD observability is fragmented across heterogeneous tools
- How CDEvents provides a standardization layer for delivery events
- Technical architecture: event collector, time-series storage, visualization stack
- Practical steps to add observability incrementally (instrument CI → registries → CD tools)
- How standardized events unlock automation possibilities beyond observability
The presentation shows Grafana dashboards with real deployment metrics, demonstrating what teams can observe once CDEvents is integrated into their infrastructure.
Open source technologies: CDEvents, CDviz, PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB, Grafana.
- 25+ years of experience in software development, mainly in Tooling & Backend & DevOps
- Member of the CDEvents WG (lead of rust SDK) since 2024
- Currently involved in CDviz, a stack using CDEvents to Observe CI/CD and make them more events-driven