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# Streamline the Development Lifecycle with CI Visibility

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The Delivery tab in Software Catalog helps you assess and optimize your service's pre-production status by providing insights into CI pipelines and static analysis violations.

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   source="https://datadog-docs.imgix.net/images/tracing/software_catalog/pipeline-visibility-software-delivery.e18c69d03c44727ae3b96c67f122f929.png?auto=format"
   alt="The Delivery tab for monitoring pre-production status in Software Catalog" /%}

With Delivery, you can:

- Monitor the performance of CI pipelines related to your services.
- Identify security and code quality issues from [Static Analysis](https://docs.datadoghq.com/security/code_security/static_analysis/).
- Troubleshoot pre-production slowdowns and failures.
- Track Change Lead Time by integrating with [DORA Metrics](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dora_metrics/).

By default, your service is linked to CI pipelines through its repository URL. To add or remove a pipeline associated with your service:

1. Click on your service in [Software Catalog](https://app.datadoghq.com/software) to open the service side panel, click on the Ownership tab, and find the edit options for Entity Metadata.

**Note**: This is only available for Software Catalog schema v2.2 and above.

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      alt="The detailed side panel view for a service, highlighting metadata editing options" /%}

1. Edit the service metadata to add or remove a pipeline:

   - **Edit in UI**: Find the Software Delivery section, then search for and select the pipelines you want to associate with the service.

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        alt="The configuration page for updating service metadata, featuring the Software Delivery field for adding and removing related pipelines" /%}

   - **Edit in GitHub**: Manually add a pipeline fingerprint under `ci-pipeline-fingerprints` in the service metadata YAML file (see [this example](https://docs.datadoghq.com/software_catalog/service_definitions/v2-2/#example-yaml)). To find a pipeline's fingerprint, go to the [Pipelines](https://app.datadoghq.com/ci/pipelines) page, click on the pipeline, and select the gear icon.

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        alt="An example of a pipeline fingerprint" /%}

For more details on CI status and static analysis violations for the pipelines associated with a particular service, click on the service and navigate to the **Delivery** tab.

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   alt="The Delivery tab for a service, showing pipeline information like success rate and date of last execution" /%}

## Further reading{% #further-reading %}

- [Static Analysis](https://docs.datadoghq.com/security/code_security/static_analysis/)
- [DORA Metrics](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dora_metrics/)
- [Investigate memory leaks and OOMs with Datadog's guided workflow](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/memory-leak-workflow/)
- [Improve your shift-left observability with the Datadog Service Catalog](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/shift-left-datadog-service-catalog/)