As a small startup team of developers, release engineering and quality assurance was inherently problematic. To optimize these processes, Sensu implemented a full automated test infrastructure for staging and end-to-end testing, which later became known as the QA Crucible. To increase observability on the overall ecosystem, Nikki started to research the intersection of monitoring and testing in a CI/CD pipeline, and sought to implement existing tooling to further optimize the workflow. By instrumenting JSON test results within a monitoring solution, she discovered a major upside to how tests are run, visualized, responded to, and remediated. Not only can tests be run continuously, but results can also be routed through an event pipeline for data manipulation, visibility and alerting. This pattern allows operators to treat test failures as incidents, and persists test results as metrics in a time-series database for analysis. This technology stack uses Rspec for automated tests, Sensu as an event pipeline, InfluxDB for metric storage, and Grafana for visual dashboards.