Smoke Monitor
The Smoke Monitor dashboard is designed for teams who run a small, fast set of critical-path checks as a deployment gate. It provides an at-a-glance view of your smoke suite health before and after each deployment.
Accessing the Smoke Monitor
Navigate to Monitoring in the sidebar and select the Smoke tab. Ensure the monitoring feature flag is enabled (see Monitoring Overview).
Dashboard components
KPI cards
The top of the Smoke Monitor displays key performance indicators across the current filter window:
| KPI | Description |
|---|---|
| Pass rate | Percentage of smoke test sessions that passed |
| Total runs | Number of smoke suite executions |
| Avg. duration | Mean execution time per smoke run |
| Failure count | Total failed sessions in the period |
Suite health rings
Health rings are circular progress indicators for each suite in your smoke configuration. Each ring shows:
- The pass rate as a filled arc (green for healthy, amber for degraded, red for failing).
- The suite name and total session count.
- A click-through to the filtered run list for that specific suite.
Pipeline gate flow
The pipeline gate flow visualization shows the execution path through your CI pipeline:
- Entry point (trigger event: push, PR, manual)
- Smoke suite execution step
- Pass/fail outcome
- Gate decision (deploy continues or is blocked)
This visualization helps teams understand how often smoke failures are blocking deployments and at what stage in the pipeline.
Execution rhythm
The execution rhythm chart shows a time-series view of smoke suite runs, making it easy to see:
- How frequently smoke tests are running.
- Whether execution cadence has changed (e.g., fewer runs than expected might indicate a CI configuration problem).
- Pass/fail rate trends over time.
Use cases
- Verify deployment gates — Quickly check if your last deployment passed all smoke checks before proceeding.
- Identify flaky smoke tests — Frequent but alternating pass/fail patterns on the same suite indicate flakiness.
- Monitor execution cadence — Ensure smoke tests are running on every deployment as expected.