CI/CD Pipeline Monitoring Dashboard for Student Projects

Problem statement

Students working on software projects often lack visibility into automated build and deployment pipelines. Without monitoring, failures go unnoticed, leading to broken applications and wasted development time. A centralized dashboard that shows CI/CD status helps improve productivity and reliability.

Abstract

This project builds a monitoring dashboard that aggregates CI/CD pipeline statuses for multiple repositories using APIs from GitHub Actions or GitLab CI. The system fetches build status, test results, deployment logs, and error messages, and displays them in real time. It helps students and faculty keep track of project health and ensures continuous integration practices are followed.

Components required

• GitHub/GitLab repositories with CI/CD workflows
• API access tokens
• Backend service (Node.js / Python Flask)
• Database (MongoDB / Firebase / PostgreSQL)
• Frontend dashboard UI (React/Next.js)

Block diagram

Working

The backend periodically calls GitHub/GitLab APIs to check the latest pipeline runs for selected student repositories. It stores build history, success/failure patterns, test logs, and branch-level results in a database. The dashboard visualizes this information through color-coded charts and indicators. Notifications can be sent to students when a build breaks or tests fail.

Applications

• University coding projects
• Software engineering labs
• DevOps learning environments
• Hackathon project tracking