Welcome to our November update roundup! This month, we've made Rely.io more efficient and insightful for developers and teams, adding new features that enhance engineering performance tracking, improve usability, and expand our plugin ecosystem. Let’s dive in!
Contextual Filters for More Relevant Dashboards
In the context of high pace delivery, increased compliance expectations and even often budget contractions, Engineering Leaders are mandated to “to do better with less”. The first step on this journey to drive efficiency up is to start with measuring and tracking Engineering Performance across different dimensions (teams, systems, services, domains, etc).
Using Rely.io’s Software Catalog for the key entities (Teams, Services, Systems etc.), you can already access the relevant performance metrics and Scorecards that are either provided out-of-the-box or that you customized. So when looking at a specific entity (e.g. Team:Backend) you can track effortlessly and assess their performance trend.
However, to actually assess performance of a given Team or Service, looking at their metrics on their own is often not enough:
- What is the baseline this value should be compared to?
- How does this specific entity fare compared to other similar entities? (e.g. other backend teams)
With the new Engineering Performance view, you can now also track and compare these metrics between Teams or Services, all in one single page:
Engineering Leaders can decide which entities to look at (Services, Teams, etc.) and filter them to focus on a desired scope (e.g. to only show the ones they are responsible for).
With all the teams of interest in on view, assessing their performance in the broader context within the Organization becomes seamless.
It also means the views can be more easily shared internally when building reports, preparing OKRs or communicating them to each team.
The Engineering Performance views are already available in Beta.
If you want to try them for your organization, let us know!
Increased visibility into performance with more OotB metrics
Your Software Catalog in Rely.io comes with a pre-populated data model that includes default Blueprints (like Team, Services, Domain, etc.). To help you track and improve Engineering Performance in your Organizations, these default Blueprints already included insightful metrics derived from established frameworks like DORA:
- Deployment frequency
- Lead time for changes (LtfC)
- MTTR
- Change failure rate
- Active Alerts
- Active Incidents
This month we have added new out-of-the-box metrics to further extend your visibility into Engineering Performance of your Teams and Services:
- PR Cycle time: measured between a PR being opened to it’s closing
- Time for first Response: measured between a PR being opened and an action being taken on it by contributors other than the author (submit review, leave comment, etc.).
- Merge Frequency: daily count of merged PRs
- Commit Frequency: daily count of individual commits
- Unique Contributors: count of unique contributors to the code base over a given window
- Unique Reviewers: count of unique team-members that performed a review over a given time window
- Changed lines: average number of proposed Line Changes in PRs.
These metrics have been added to better support the mandate of Engineering Leaders to drive Engineering Performance up and are at the heart of the new views showcased above.
Read more about these metrics and why they matter in our incoming blog post about why and how to track and improve Engineering efficiency. Stayed tuned!
End-to-end visibility into your CI/CD with the FluxCD plugin
As the adoption of modern CI/CD practices (like GitOps) is on the rise, it becomes increasingly harder to track code once it has been pushed.
Whether it’s for visibility purposes within a team (to track ongoing deployment, fix failing ones, etc.) or for Engineering Leaders to accurately keep track of performance metrics impacted by deployments (Deployment Frequency, LtfC, etc.), or an accurate representation of the SDLC.
With the new FluxCD plugin you can now track your code journey from commit or merge (thanks to the Git integrations like Github, Gitlab or Bitbucket) to its actual deployment in your various environments (dev, staging, production, etc.).
The FluxCD plugin is already generally available as part of our open source integration framework, Galaxy.
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
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