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Pulse
Release health, in one dashboard
Pulse · how it works
Delivery leads watching release risk across services
Rolls up deploy frequency, error rates, and rollback history across every service so leads can see release risk before it ships.
The problem
On a team that runs more than a handful of services, release health is spread across the CI system, the error tracker, the deploy log and a few Slack threads. Nobody has the whole picture until something breaks, and by then the question is no longer "should we ship?" but "what do we roll back?".
Delivery leads end up rebuilding the same view by hand before every release meeting: which services deployed this week, which ones are throwing more errors than usual, and which ones have needed a rollback recently. That work is slow, and it goes stale the moment a new deploy lands.
How Pulse works
- Connect your pipelines. Pulse reads deploy events from your CI/CD tooling, so every release is recorded against the service and the commit range it shipped.
- Track the signals that predict trouble. Deploy frequency, error rates and rollback history are rolled up per service, so a service that is suddenly deploying less, failing more or rolling back often stands out.
- Alert before the release, not after. Alerting flags services whose release risk has changed, so leads can slow down, add review or schedule extra QA before the next deploy goes out.
Use cases
- A weekly release review that starts from one dashboard instead of five browser tabs.
- Spotting a service that has quietly started rolling back more often than its neighbours.
- Giving engineering managers and product owners the same view of release risk.
- Deciding where to spend QA and on-call attention ahead of a large launch.
Who Pulse is for
Pulse is most useful for teams running several services with their own deploy pipelines, where release risk is hard to see from any single tool. It suits delivery leads, engineering managers and platform teams who own the release process. If you ship one application a few times a month, a simple deploy log is probably enough, and we will tell you so.
How we use it on engagements
On DevOps and infrastructure engagements we set Pulse up early, alongside the CI/CD and observability work. It gives both teams a shared baseline for deploy frequency, error rates and rollbacks, so improvements to pipelines, testing and infrastructure can be seen in the numbers rather than argued about in meetings. Whatever we connect it to stays in your accounts and your repositories.
Capabilities
- Dashboards
- Alerting
- CI/CD integrations
Status: Internal accelerator
Built in-house and used on our client engagements.
Request a walkthrough to see it live and talk through fit for your team.
Related service: DevOps & Infrastructure
Frequently asked questions
What does Pulse measure?
Pulse rolls up deploy frequency, error rates and rollback history for each service, so delivery leads can compare release risk across services in one dashboard.
Can we use Pulse on its own?
Pulse is an internal accelerator that we run on our DevOps engagements. Request a walkthrough to see it live and talk through whether it fits your release process.
Does Pulse replace our monitoring tools?
No. Pulse sits on top of the CI/CD and error data you already collect and turns it into a release-risk view. Your existing monitoring and alerting stay in place.