Insights

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About the plugin

The Insights plugin provides a comprehensive window into Backstage usage and sentiment at your organization. As a Backstage champion, this data helps you understand how developers are using Backstage, where the best opportunities are to improve their experience, and how that experience is evolving over time.

• Measure user and plugin adoption

  Understand how users are adopting Backstage at your organization with overall and plugin-specific engagement metrics. Use this data to validate the success of your Backstage instance and identify areas where you can maximize your impact.

• Understand user behavior and sentiment

  Dive deep into all kinds of data about how users are using Backstage, including sentiment data from short pop-up surveys you can run all across the Backstage platform. Insights provides a comprehensive view of how Backstage users are actually interacting with your Backstage app. The plugin captures user, search, catalog, and template activities within your organization, eliminating the need for manual setup. Use this data to gain a deep understanding of user behavior and evaluate the success of your Backstage initiatives.

• Identify trends

  Understand how your Backstage experience is changing over time. Insights highlights the most important trends for Backstage champions with pre-built graphs that allow you to benchmark and compare user behavior data over time. It also provides the flexibility you need to explore the data yourself based on your organization's priorities.