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diff --git a/doc/ci/pipelines/pipeline_efficiency.md b/doc/ci/pipelines/pipeline_efficiency.md index 149c596430c..de78b8558c4 100644 --- a/doc/ci/pipelines/pipeline_efficiency.md +++ b/doc/ci/pipelines/pipeline_efficiency.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- stage: Verify group: Continuous Integration -info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#designated-technical-writers +info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments type: reference --- @@ -105,10 +105,10 @@ External monitoring tools can poll the API and verify pipeline health or collect metrics for long term SLA analytics. For example, the [GitLab CI Pipelines Exporter](https://github.com/mvisonneau/gitlab-ci-pipelines-exporter) -for Prometheus fetches metrics from the API. It can check branches in projects automatically +for Prometheus fetches metrics from the API and pipeline events. It can check branches in projects automatically and get the pipeline status and duration. In combination with a Grafana dashboard, this helps build an actionable view for your operations team. Metric graphs can also -be embedded into incidents making problem resolving easier. +be embedded into incidents making problem resolving easier. Additionally, it can also export metrics about jobs and environments.  @@ -189,8 +189,12 @@ be more efficient, but can also make pipelines harder to understand and analyze. ### Caching -Another optimization method is to use [caching](../caching/index.md) between jobs and stages, -for example [`/node_modules` for NodeJS](../caching/index.md#caching-nodejs-dependencies). +Another optimization method is to [cache](../caching/index.md) dependencies. If your +dependencies change rarely, like [NodeJS `/node_modules`](../caching/index.md#cache-nodejs-dependencies), +caching can make pipeline execution much faster. + +You can use [`cache:when`](../yaml/README.md#cachewhen) to cache downloaded dependencies +even when a job fails. ### Docker Images |