As we wrap up the year, our focus this December has been on enhancing usability, delivering deeper insights, and expanding the power of Rely.io with new capabilities. Let’s explore what’s new this month.
[Beta] Find performance bottlenecks in minutes
Last month, we introduced the “Performance Review” page as a beta feature, designed to provide actionable insights into your engineering operations. Since then, we’ve been hard at work to deliver its next planned iteration while also incorporating your feedback to make this tool even more powerful and user-friendly.
This new iteration brings the following improvements:
Renamed Feature
Following your feedback, the page is now called Engineering Performance instead of Performance Reviews, which aligns better with engineering efficiency concerns and avoids confusion with personal reviews from the HR world.
Improved filters
The simple dropdowns from the previous version have now been replaced by cumulative filters for Teams and Services. Each filter is also reactive to the other based on the owner relationship between Services and their Team. With these, you can now narrow down your focus on the scope that matters to you and review Engineering Performance for specific teams or services under your purview.
New tabs
In order to bring clarity and additional context to the information shown, the page now includes tabs that represent specific areas of interest (e.g. Productivity, Security, etc.)
Overview tab: When performing a quick review “at a glance” you need to find in one place the most important information that will immediately highlight standouts on which you should focus your attention first. This new tab includes a hand picked selection of critical information from the other tabs and surfaces them in on simple view. This selection will evolved over time based on your feedback as well as the growth of the feature (e.g. with the future addition of a “security” tab).In this iteration, the tab includes critical productivity metrics (PR Cycle time, Change Lead Time and MTTR) as well as the Production Readiness Scorecard. You can click on each requirement to drill-down on it and find which services or teams are compliant or not.
Productivity tab: This tab includes a selection of coding and deployment practices related metrics helping you quickly assess if and where any bottleneck exist there. There are currently 9 metrics covered that will evolve based on customers feedback and usage.
Display Control
In order to keep the graphs legible (and avoid spaghettification), not all entities that fit your filters have to be displayed at the same time. Using the Display Control button, you can select which entities should explicitly shown or not. For all the ones not shown, they do not disappear and are actually surfaced as an “aggregated” curve so that their contextual value is never lost.
With enhancements to the filters, aggregated values, and drilldowns, the Performance Review Page now offers unparalleled visibility and usability, ensuring you can pinpoint bottlenecks and take decisive action with ease.
The Engineering Performance views are still available in Beta.
If you want to try them for your organization, let us know!
Enhance Compliance and Discovery with File Analysis
All plugins now include support for a new filesToCheck capability, giving you deeper insights into the files and configurations in your repositories. This feature allows plugins to inspect specific files chosen by you, enabling:
- Enhanced Software Catalogs: Automatically populate and validate metadata taken from within the file’s content for better service discovery.
- Improved Scorecards: Verify compliance with essential standards by perusing file contents, such as ensuring service.yaml files are properly filled.
This capability empowers teams to maintain high standards effortlessly and ensures critical details don’t slip through the cracks.
File Analysis is generally available for all users.
On the Horizon
Here’s a preview of features coming next:
- Engineering Performance GA: On top of the performance metrics announced above, Engineering Leaders can review more metrics and include Scorecards for their Teams, Services & Domains.
- Automated Actions for Engineering Performance: Turn insights from the Engineering Performance views into automated and actionable tasks to efficiently lead teams to perform the changes that will drive performance up.
- Onboarding Wizard for Free Trials: New users will soon benefit from a step-by-step guide, taking them from first login to actionable insights like DORA metrics in under five minutes.
- Guided Experience for Adding Plugins: Soon, we’ll be bringing the new configuration wizard to the journey for adding new plugins, ensuring every step is clear and efficient there too.
- Standardized Plugins: Look out for improvements as we standardize more plugins by type (Incident Management, Observability, CI/CD), making integrations even more seamless.
As well as our next incoming Plugins:
- Jira
- ServiceNow
- Incident.io
- Rootly
- Jenkins
- Linear
Not a user yet?
If you’re looking for an Internal Developer Portal or are simply interested in trying everything we described here, you can get started for free with Rely.io.
Want to see Rely.io in action? Get started with your free trial here.
Top comments (0)