Lane MonkeyLane Monkey vs Jenkins
Looking for a Jenkins dashboard alternative for CI/CD monitoring?
Jenkins is the workhorse of CI/CD. But its dashboard is stuck in 2010, Blue Ocean is effectively abandoned, and it can only see Jenkins jobs — not your Vercel deployments, Sentry errors, or GitHub Actions runs. Lane Monkey gives you a modern, unified view of everything.
What Jenkins does well
Jenkins has earned its place in the CI/CD world. It's been around for over 15 years and powers some of the largest engineering organizations in the world.
- The most mature CI/CD system in the industry — battle-tested over 15+ years with a massive plugin ecosystem
- Highly extensible with thousands of community plugins for virtually every use case
- Full self-hosting control — your data stays on your infrastructure, your way
- Blue Ocean attempted to modernize the UI with a pipeline visualization layer
Where it falls short for CI/CD monitoring
Jenkins is a CI/CD engine, not a monitoring dashboard. And its attempts at a modern UI haven't kept pace with how engineering teams work today.
- Blue Ocean has been effectively abandoned — the last meaningful update was years ago, and the project is in maintenance mode
- The classic Jenkins UI is dated and unintuitive — navigating job status across dozens of projects is painful
- Only shows Jenkins jobs — if your team also uses Vercel, Sentry, GitHub Actions, or any other tool, you need a separate dashboard for each
- No cross-tool visibility — in a modern stack with 5-6 different CI/CD and monitoring tools, Jenkins can only see its own corner of the world
How Lane Monkey is different
Lane Monkey doesn't replace Jenkins — it gives you a modern monitoring layer on top of it, plus every other tool your team uses. Think of it as the dashboard Jenkins never built.
Modern Kanban UI
A clean, responsive interface built with modern web technologies. No more fighting a Java-era UI to find the status of your last deployment.
Aggregates ALL CI/CD tools
Not just Jenkins. See GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Vercel, Netlify, Sentry, PagerDuty, Railway, CircleCI, and more — all on one board.
No self-hosting required
Lane Monkey is fully managed. No servers to maintain, no plugins to update, no Java heap size to tune. Just sign in and connect your tools.
Built for modern stacks
Your team doesn’t just use Jenkins. Lane Monkey is designed for teams that use a mix of tools — and gives you one unified view of all of them.
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How Lane Monkey and the Jenkins dashboard stack up for CI/CD pipeline monitoring.
| Feature |  Jenkins | Lane Monkey |
|---|---|---|
| Modern UI | ||
| Multi-tool aggregation | ||
| Hosted / managed | ||
| Real-time updates | ||
| Team collaboration | ||
| Mobile-friendly | ||
| Plugin ecosystem | ||
| Self-hosted option |
Make the switch in under a minute.
Free to start, Pro when your team grows. Keep Jenkins as your CI engine — let Lane Monkey be the dashboard it never built.