CatLight features

See the status of your builds, releases, pull requests, and issues on one personalized dashboard.

Build and release pipelines will show the previous history so you can see when the first breakage occurred.

Acknowledge alerts that you want to fix later. This can help you identify new action items faster. When all alerts are acknowledged, the tray icon will change to an outline.

See the overall status of your action list in one icon. When it is green, everything is fine. Otherwise, something needs your attention.

Get desktop notifications about items that you monitor. CatLight shows notifications on all supported operating systems: Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Get notifications when the build pipeline fails or completes. When a build starts, CatLight will show the estimated completion time in the notification.

CatLight will show desktop notifications about release pipeline events. You will get a notification about release pipeline failure or success. The app will also show notifications about pending release approvals.

Get notifications about incoming pull requests. CatLight will also notify you when someone is reviewing your PR and has approved or rejected it.

See a desktop notification when a new important bug appears, or a customer created an issue. The app will also notify you about changes to the issues that you follow. Just add a work item/issue query to your dashboard, and CatLight will keep you updated about all issues that match it.

Configure CatLight to only show you the important notifications that you care about

Show the CatLight dashboard on a big TV screen to see an overview of your team status.

You can also create multiple dashboards and share them with the team in the app. You can have a dashboard per project or team role. Some teams that have dedicated on-call engineers can benefit from having an on-call CatLight dashboard.

Notify the team that you are checking a broken build or a release. Your team members will get a desktop notification and see it on the dashboard.

Use build investigations to make sure that an engineer is working on a problem, and that it is not handled by multiple developers at the same time.

Use comments to provide a status update, share the reason for the build breakage, or provide troubleshooting steps for engineers who will investigate next time.

See who broke the build first. This can be useful when people continue to push changes on top of a broken branch, and it's unclear who should investigate the build.

With one click in the CatLight app, you can notify your teammates that you have started working on an issue or doing a code review. They will see it on the dashboard and get a desktop notification about that. With this feature, developers will be less distracted by status update requests.

When you are working on an action item, CatLight will only show you desktop notifications if something with a higher priority than your current work has appeared.

Let CatLight prioritize day-to-day work for the whole team, using the rules that you define. For example, you can specify that code reviews are more important than sprint tasks, and that build issues of specific pipelines are above all.

See the number of active alerts for every team member. Use this to see if some engineers are overloaded and cannot keep up with the work.

The team status panel is available in v2, and will be available in v3 in future releases.