CDviz

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CDviz Platform Overview ​

CDviz is an open-source SDLC observability platform that collects, stores, and visualizes software delivery events using the CDEvents standard. It answers operational questions like "What version is running in production?", "When did we last deploy service X?", and "What is our deployment frequency?", without manual correlation of data across CI/CD tools.

CDviz comprises three components: a Collector that ingests events from GitHub, GitLab, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, custom webhooks, and HTTP polling (for systems without push support); a Database built on PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB for event storage (ClickHouse is also available as a collector sink, though the Grafana dashboards currently require PostgreSQL); and Grafana dashboards for deployment tracking, DORA metrics, incidents, and artifact timelines.

CDviz favors a push (event-driven) model. It has lower overhead, and the same event stream can trigger downstream automation via NATS, Kafka, or HTTP. CDviz also pulls data via polling for systems that cannot push (unlike polling-only tools such as Apache DevLake).

Key Capabilities ​

CDviz enables organizations to answer critical operational questions:

  • Current application version deployment status across environments
  • Version correlation between deployed applications and observable runtime metrics
  • End-to-end deployment process duration metrics
  • CI/CD pipeline performance analytics
  • DORA metrics implementation and visualization

Getting Started ​

Try it instantly

Explore a live read-only instance of the CDviz Grafana dashboards at demo.cdviz.dev/grafana. No installation required.

New to CDviz? Start with the Getting Started Guide. It runs a local CDviz environment, sends your first events, and shows the results in Grafana.

CDEvents ​

CDviz is built on the CDEvents specification. See how CDviz uses CDEvents.

Architecture ​

The Architecture page shows how the CDviz components work together.

From Events to Insight in 4 Steps ​

CDviz follows the same four steps end to end:

  1. Event Collection: the CDviz Collector ingests events from GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, and more, and normalizes them into CDEvents. Start from the Integrations catalog.
  2. Event Store: the CDviz Database (PostgreSQL + TimescaleDB) persists every event for time-series analytics.
  3. Event Monitoring: dashboards surface DORA metrics, deployment timelines, and incidents in Grafana, CDviz Cloud, or your own analytics stack.
  4. Event Reaction: the same event stream triggers automation via webhooks (Argo Workflows, n8n, Zapier, ...), Kafka, NATS, or SSE.

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