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Paper Title : Pragmatic Analysis of Custom Jenkins Jobs’ Metrics Using Prometheus and Grafana

ISSN : 2395-1303
Year of Publication : 2021
10.29126/23951303/IJET-V7I4P06

Authors: Jayanth G

         


Abstract
- CI/CD, in software development, is the process of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery/deployment (CD) of code. By imposing automation in the construction, testing, and deployment of applications, CI/CD facilitates development and operations (DevOps) activities and teams. Prometheus is a popular open-source alerting and monitoring software that allows flexible queries via its query language, PromQL. Grafana is one of the widely used open-source tools that can be hooked up with Prometheus’ time-series database for metric analytics and visualization. This paper explains a comprehensive approach of extracting, creating, and pushing custom parameters associated with Jenkins jobs as metrics to Prometheus using Python language, filtering them using Prometheus Query Language (PromQL), and visualizing them using Grafana dashboards. These metrics can also serve as a purpose in determining high resource-intensive jobs

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Keywords
——— Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery/Deployment, DevOps, PromQL, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, cron expression, GitHub.