Perspicax - Unified CI/CD Pipeline Observability

One Dashboard for All Your CI/CD Pipelines

Perspicax is the cross-platform observability solution that brings unified visibility, governance, and insights to your entire CI/CD ecosystem—no matter where you build.

Perspicax (Latin): clear-sighted, discerning, all-seeing

The Multi-Platform Pipeline Challenge

Modern development teams don’t run pipelines in just one place. Your organization likely has:

  • GitHub Actions for cloud-native applications
  • GitLab CI for internal tooling
  • Azure DevOps for enterprise systems
  • CircleCI for mobile development
  • Jenkins for legacy infrastructure

Each platform has its own dashboard. Each requires separate monitoring. But getting a unified view of pipeline health, performance, and costs across all of them? That’s been nearly impossible—until now.

What is Perspicax?

Perspicax is a unified CI/CD observability platform that aggregates pipeline events, metrics, and insights from all major build systems into a single dashboard. Get comprehensive visibility and cross-platform governance without rebuilding your CI/CD infrastructure.

Core Capabilities

Universal Pipeline Integration

  • GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, CircleCI, Jenkins, Travis CI
  • Cloud-native builds (AWS CodeBuild, Google Cloud Build, Azure Pipelines)
  • Self-hosted runners and agents across all platforms
  • Real-time event streaming with webhook and API adapters

Unified Event Stream

  • Live feed of all pipeline runs across platforms
  • Advanced filtering by status, duration, branch, or team
  • Full-text search across logs and metadata
  • Timeline views and cross-platform correlations

Agent Health & Capacity Monitoring

  • Real-time visibility into self-hosted runner status
  • Utilization charts and capacity planning insights
  • Queue depth monitoring and bottleneck detection
  • Automated alerts for agent failures or capacity issues

Pipeline Analytics & Insights

  • Pass/fail rates and success trends over time
  • Average duration and performance benchmarks
  • Flakiness detection and reliability scoring
  • Cost analysis and resource utilization metrics

Cross-Platform Governance

  • Policy-based alerts for failed deployments
  • Environment drift detection
  • Compliance monitoring and audit trails
  • Custom rules and automated notifications

AI-Assisted Optimization

  • Identify pipelines that consistently slow releases
  • Suggest optimizations based on historical data
  • Anomaly detection for unusual patterns
  • Predictive insights for capacity planning

Why CI/CD Observability Matters

When pipelines are scattered across platforms, problems are invisible until they impact delivery:

  • Failed deployments go unnoticed
  • Agent capacity issues cause delays
  • Performance degradation happens gradually
  • Governance gaps create compliance risks
  • Teams spend hours hunting across dashboards

Perspicax solves this by giving you one place to see everything, understand trends, and take action before problems escalate.

Key Problems Perspicax Solves

Visibility Gaps

“Is our deployment pipeline healthy right now?” Without Perspicax, you need to check 4+ dashboards. With Perspicax, you see everything instantly.

Inconsistent Governance

Different platforms, different policies, different enforcement. Perspicax lets you set organization-wide rules that apply everywhere.

Hidden Performance Issues

That pipeline that takes 45 minutes? It used to take 15. Perspicax shows you the trend and identifies the cause.

Agent Management Chaos

Self-hosted runners going down? Queues backing up? Perspicax monitors capacity and alerts you proactively.

Compliance Blind Spots

Audit logs scattered across platforms. Missing trails. Perspicax unifies everything with comprehensive audit capabilities.

Perspicax Components

Perspicax Stream

Real-Time Pipeline Event Aggregation

The foundation of Perspicax. Collect, normalize, and stream pipeline events from all your CI/CD platforms into one unified feed.

  • Real-time event ingestion
  • Platform-agnostic data model
  • Flexible filtering and search
  • Historical event replay

Perspicax Monitor

Agent Health & Capacity Management

Keep self-hosted runners and agents healthy. Monitor utilization, detect failures, and plan capacity with confidence.

  • Multi-platform agent discovery
  • Live status monitoring
  • Capacity utilization trends
  • Automated health checks and alerts

Perspicax Insights

Analytics, Trends & AI-Powered Recommendations

Understand your CI/CD landscape with comprehensive analytics, trend analysis, and intelligent optimization suggestions.

  • Pipeline performance metrics
  • Reliability and flakiness scoring
  • Cost and resource analysis
  • AI-powered optimization recommendations

Perspicax Govern

Cross-Platform Policy & Compliance

Set organization-wide policies that span all CI/CD platforms. Monitor compliance, enforce standards, and maintain audit trails.

  • Policy-as-code framework
  • Automated compliance checks
  • Audit log aggregation
  • Role-based access control (RBAC)

Additional modules on roadmap: DORA metrics tracking, incident correlation, and more

How It Works

1. Connect Your CI/CD Platforms

Integrate Perspicax with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, CircleCI, and more using native plugins, webhooks, or API adapters.

2. Automatic Event Collection

Perspicax automatically ingests pipeline events, run statuses, logs, and metrics from all connected platforms—no code changes required.

3. Unified Visibility

All pipeline data flows into one dashboard. Search, filter, and analyze runs across your entire organization from a single interface.

4. Intelligent Monitoring

Perspicax continuously monitors pipeline health, agent capacity, and performance trends. Get alerts before problems impact delivery.

5. Actionable Insights

AI-powered analytics identify optimization opportunities, predict capacity needs, and surface issues that would otherwise go unnoticed.

Use Cases

Multi-Platform DevOps Teams

“We were drowning in dashboards—GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps. Perspicax gave us one view and saved hours every week.”

Small to Mid-Sized Development Teams

Get enterprise-grade visibility without enterprise complexity. Lightweight setup, immediate value, minimal maintenance.

Agencies & MSPs

Manage CI/CD pipelines across multiple clients from one unified dashboard. Proactive monitoring, faster troubleshooting, better service delivery.

Regulated Industries

Meet compliance requirements with unified audit trails and governance policies that span all your CI/CD platforms. Generate compliance reports instantly.

Platform Engineering Teams

Provide internal teams with self-service observability. Track platform adoption, identify optimization opportunities, and improve developer experience.

Cost-Conscious Organizations

Understand pipeline resource usage across platforms. Identify waste, optimize runtimes, and reduce cloud compute costs.

Deployment Options

Cloud (SaaS)

Fully managed, instant setup, automatic updates, zero infrastructure overhead

Self-Hosted

Deploy on your infrastructure with Docker or Kubernetes for complete data control

Hybrid

Control plane in your environment, lightweight agents in the cloud for flexibility

Air-Gapped

Complete on-premises deployment for highly regulated or secure environments

Technical Specifications

Supported CI/CD Platforms

GitHub Actions • GitLab CI/CD • Azure DevOps • CircleCI • Jenkins • Travis CI • Bitbucket Pipelines • AWS CodeBuild • Google Cloud Build • Drone CI • TeamCity • Bamboo • Buildkite • Tekton • Argo Workflows • Concourse CI • Custom platforms via REST API

Integration Methods

  • Native webhooks and API integrations
  • Platform-specific plugins and extensions
  • Lightweight agent deployment for on-prem runners
  • REST API and GraphQL for custom integrations
  • CLI tool (perspicax-cli)
  • Terraform and Kubernetes operators

Key Technologies

  • Real-time event streaming (Kafka-compatible)
  • Time-series data storage for metrics
  • Full-text search with advanced indexing
  • Machine learning models for insights
  • OIDC and SSO for authentication

Notification Channels

Slack • Microsoft Teams • Email • PagerDuty • Webhooks • Custom integrations

Security & Compliance

Security Practices

  • Zero-trust architecture
  • Encryption at rest and in transit (TLS 1.3)
  • Secrets never stored or logged
  • Regular security audits
  • SOC 2 Type II compliant infrastructure

Data Privacy

  • Your pipeline data stays under your control
  • Configurable data retention policies
  • GDPR and CCPA compliant
  • Optional PII redaction
  • No third-party data sharing

Access Control

  • Role-based access control (RBAC)
  • Team and project-level permissions
  • SSO/SAML integration
  • Audit logs for all user actions

Pricing & Plans

Free Tier

Perfect for small teams getting started

  • Up to 1,000 pipeline runs/month
  • 3 connected platforms
  • 30 days of data retention
  • Community support

Professional

For growing teams with multi-platform needs

  • Unlimited pipeline runs
  • All platforms supported
  • 90 days of data retention
  • Agent health monitoring
  • Email and chat support

Enterprise

For organizations requiring governance and compliance

  • Everything in Professional
  • Unlimited data retention
  • Advanced governance and policies
  • AI-powered insights and recommendations
  • SSO/SAML integration
  • Dedicated support with SLAs
  • Custom integrations and on-premises deployment

Custom plans available for agencies, MSPs, and high-scale organizations

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need to change my CI/CD pipelines?

No. Perspicax integrates via webhooks, APIs, and native plugins—your existing workflows remain completely unchanged.

How quickly can I get started?

Most teams are up and running in under 15 minutes. Connect your first platform, and you’ll see data flowing immediately.

What about self-hosted runners?

Perspicax fully supports self-hosted runners and agents across all platforms. Agent health monitoring is a core feature.

Where is my pipeline data stored?

In cloud deployments, data is encrypted and stored in SOC 2 compliant infrastructure. Self-hosted options keep all data in your environment.

Can I set custom alerts and policies?

Yes. Perspicax supports flexible alerting rules and governance policies with integrations to Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, and more.

Does this work with on-premises Jenkins or GitLab?

Absolutely. Perspicax supports cloud-hosted, self-hosted, and air-gapped environments for all platforms.

How does this compare to platform-native dashboards?

Native dashboards only show one platform. Perspicax gives you unified visibility across all your CI/CD systems with cross-platform analytics and governance.

Perspicax stores pipeline metadata and key metrics. Full log storage is optional—we integrate with your existing log aggregation tools or can store logs based on your retention policy.

Can I try before buying?

Yes! Our free tier gives you full access to core features with generous limits. No credit card required to start.

What kind of support do you offer?

Community support for free tier, email and chat support for Professional, and dedicated support with SLAs for Enterprise customers.

How do the AI insights work?

Our machine learning models analyze historical pipeline data to identify patterns, anomalies, and optimization opportunities. Suggestions are contextual and actionable.

Can I export data for custom analysis?

Yes. Perspicax provides a comprehensive API and data export capabilities for integration with your BI tools or custom analytics.

Roadmap

We’re continuously improving Perspicax based on customer feedback. Coming soon:

  • DORA Metrics Tracking: Automated deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, and change failure rate across all platforms
  • Incident Correlation: Connect pipeline failures to production incidents for faster root cause analysis
  • Cost Optimization Engine: Advanced cost analysis with recommendations for reducing CI/CD compute spend
  • Pipeline Security Scanning: Detect security misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in pipeline definitions
  • Advanced Workflow Orchestration: Trigger cross-platform actions based on unified events and insights

About Quaerens

Perspicax is built by Quaerens, creators of developer tools that make complex infrastructure simple and accessible. Our mission is to help teams build and ship software faster without sacrificing visibility or control.

Quaerens (Latin): seeking, striving, pursuing

Learn more at quaerens.dev


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