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DX

Enhance your Backstage instance with DORA metrics, developer experience scores, service insights, and more

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DX

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Monitoring

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About the plugin

Skip the hassle of building your own analytics database. DX aggregates data about your services and teams, making it easy to provide metrics and insights within Backstage, including DORA metrics, service insights, developer experience scores, and more.

  • Save months of engineering effort

    Build metrics and insights into Backstage in minutes, not months. DX provides dozens of data connectors and APIs to aggregate your SDLC data and quickly stand up the back-end needed to power your Backstage instance.

  • Enrich your Backstage experience

    Use prebuilt React components to quickly add valuable insights to your developer portal including DORA metrics, service maintainers, developer experience insights, and more. DX components are 100% open-source, letting you contribute and benefit from the community.

  • Built for enterprise

    Your DX instance is fully isolated and single-tenant with on-prem deployment options, enabling you to meet even the most stringent performance and security needs.

DX features

DORA metrics

Provide DORA metrics for Backstage components and groups, giving teams a quick understanding of system health and performance.

In the Group page in Backstage, the Overview tab is selected. The tab has four cards: Developers, Developer Experience, Members, and Ownership. The Developer Experience card shows the Developer Experience Score for that group.

Developer experience

Embed developer experience data from DX within Backstage group pages, helping make your developer portal the go-to hub for developers and teams.

In the Component page in Backstage, the DX tab is selected. The tab has four graphs: Deployment Frequency, Change Failure Rate, Time to Recovery, and Lead Time.

Flexible building blocks

Leverage the DX back-end schema from within Backstage, allowing you to build custom metrics and insights to power scorecards and reporting.

The DX back-end schema user interface built into Backstage. It has three tabs: Queries, Schema, and Templates. The Schema tab is selected, which opens a SQL editor where users can run database queries.

DX

Enhance your Backstage instance with DORA metrics, developer experience scores, service insights, and more

DX hero image showing three screens from their Backstage plugin.