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👀 Please review feat/authentication-refactor in auth-service: https://gitlab.com/acme/auth-service/-/merge_requests/142
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Pipie 11:51
🟢 Pipeline succeeded for feat/authentication-refactor in auth-service! https://gitlab.com/acme/auth-service/-/merge_requests/142
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GitLab CI/CD Observability

Everything you need for GitLab

Notifications, analytics, and observability for your GitLab workflows.

Merge Request Alerts

Get notified in Slack when you're assigned as a reviewer, when MRs are approved, or when merge conflicts are detected.

  • Reviewer assignment notifications
  • Approval & comment tracking
  • Merge conflict detection
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Pipeline Status

Real-time updates when your GitLab CI/CD pipelines pass, fail, or are still running. Stop refreshing the pipeline page.

  • Job-level status updates
  • Failure notifications with context
  • Turbo merge detection
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Pipeline-Level OTEL

Export GitLab CI/CD as OpenTelemetry traces with job-level granularity. Connect to your existing observability stack.

  • Pipeline as root span
  • Jobs as child spans
  • Honeycomb, Datadog, Grafana
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Feature Comparison

Pipie vs Native GitLab

Why teams choose Pipie for their GitLab workflows

Feature GitLab Native Pipie
Slack notifications Basic webhook integration Slack-first with smart routing
Custom conditions Event types only Lua expressions with 30+ variables
Cross-project rules Per-project webhooks Global rules across all projects
Pipeline analytics Basic CI/CD analytics Visual dashboards & trends
OTEL export Not available Pipeline & job-level traces

OpenTelemetry Export

Connect to your observability stack

Export GitLab CI/CD pipeline data as OTEL traces. Full pipeline-to-job hierarchy means you can see exactly which stages are slow.

  1. Enable OTEL Export

    Toggle OTEL export in settings

  2. Configure Endpoint

    Paste your observability platform endpoint

  3. Add API Key

    Configure authentication headers

  4. Go Live

    Pipeline traces exported on completion

Works with your tools

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Honeycomb

Native OTLP endpoint with trace waterfall

🐕

Datadog

CI Visibility with APM correlation

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Grafana / Tempo

Open-source with Prometheus correlation

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Any OTLP Backend

HTTP/JSON and HTTP/Protobuf supported

Custom Rules Engine

Filter with precision

Lua-based rules let you define exactly when to notify. Filter by branch, author, status, and more.

ready_to_merge.lua 
-- Notify when MR is ready to merge
mr.target_branch == "main"
  and not mr.draft
  and mr.build_status == "success"
  and mr.detailed_merge_status ~= "discussions_not_resolved"
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