Blog: Traces for your pipelines

Traces for your pipelines How can you benefit from it in your own Jenkins X cluster? What’s next? Now that Jenkins X has solid integration with Grafana for its observability , it’s time to start building fun things! And the first one is tracing for all your pipelines : With it, you can easily see the timings of all your pipelines, stages, and steps. This is great to inspect a “slow” pipeline and quickly see the slower steps. We are using OpenTelemetry to generate a “logical” view of the pipeline, with 1 trace per pipeline and 1 span for each stage and step. By default, these traces are ingested by Grafana Tempo. But if you prefer to export them to a different destination, it’s very easy, and thanks to the OpenTelemetry Collector you can export to a lot of different services. You can see the full list here and here. The trace identifier is also stored in the pipeline itself so that the Jenkins X Pipelines Visualizer UI can link directly to the trace. You just need to enable the observability stack, as explained in the observability admin guide. Then, trigger a pipeline, and once it’s finished, go to the web UI, and click on the “Trace” button on the top-right. That’s it! This is only the first step of native tracing support in Jenkins X. Stay tuned for more! ← Previous.