CI/CD Failing and Blocking Your Team
While No One Watches?
A failed workflow sat unnoticed for 4 hours. Three PRs were blocked. A hotfix couldn't deploy. Someone had to message the whole team to find out.
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Broken pipelines block work silently
GitHub notifies you about individual failures. It doesn't tell you a workflow has been stuck for 3 hours, or that 4 PRs are blocked by a single flaky test.
Failed workflow blocked three PRs
A required status check started failing at 11pm. By morning, three engineers had opened PRs that couldn't merge. Two hours of debugging to find it was a flaky test in a shared workflow.
Deployment succeeded in CI, failed in prod
Your workflow reported green. The deployment job ran. But the health check timed out silently — the new version was serving errors for 22 minutes before someone checked.
Workflow stuck, not failed
A workflow step hung on a network call and never timed out. It wasn't failed — just running. For 3 hours. Blocking the merge queue without triggering any alert.
Pipeline monitoring that goes beyond green/red
NotiLens watches your workflow stream for failures, stuck runs, and post-deploy health gaps — and alerts you the moment your pipeline needs attention.
Instant failure alerts
NotiLens fires the moment a workflow run fails — with the workflow name, branch, and failed step. No checking GitHub notifications. No waiting for someone to notice.
Stuck workflow detection
Set a maximum expected run time per workflow. If a run exceeds it without completing, NotiLens alerts — even if the status is still "running", not "failed".
Deployment health monitoring
After a deploy workflow completes, monitor the silence in your health check endpoint. If your service doesn't resume normal activity within your configured window, NotiLens alerts your on-call.
Manual rules + auto anomaly detection
You get two layers of detection — not one. Set your own thresholds for what you know matters. NotiLens learns the rest automatically.
amount > $100. Fires only when your rule is met.What NotiLens sends when your pipeline breaks
Every alert fires within 60 seconds of detection — with the workflow name, branch, and specific failure so you can act immediately.
A stuck workflow isn't failed — it's "running." GitHub won't alert you. Your team won't know.
NotiLens detects when a workflow runs longer than expected and fires before it blocks your entire release process.
One caught pipeline failure unblocks your whole team
A blocked merge queue or stuck deployment costs engineering hours fast. Here's what teams typically recover with NotiLens.
failed or stuck workflow detected — before engineers discover blocked PRs
how long stuck workflows can go unnoticed without explicit monitoring
to add the NotiLens notification step to your workflow YAML
Live in 5 minutes
No infrastructure changes. Add a single step to your GitHub Actions workflow and set your first failure rule.
Create a topic
Create a github-ci topic in NotiLens. Copy the endpoint URL.
Forward workflow events
Use a GitHub Actions step to forward workflow results to NotiLens on failure.
if: failure()
run: |
curl -X POST \
https://hook.notilens.com/webhook/TOPIC_ID/send \
-H "X-NOTILENS-KEY: ${{ secrets.NOTILENS_SECRET }}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"title":"${{ github.workflow }} failed",
"type":"urgent"}'
Set stuck-workflow threshold
Configure: "Alert if workflow runs longer than 30 minutes without completing." Done.
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