Take the guesswork out of ownership by clearly and easily tying
        owners to associated permissions and roles.

Solve ownership

Understand what’s really going on in your tech ecosystem with
        intuitive reporting, so that you can help your engineers move
        faster.

Improve visibility and decision-making

Help your developers deliver code they are proud of by baking in
        standards and best practices.

Drive best practices

Knock down knowledge silos and learn from anyone in or outside your
        organization. Our plugins help make learning more accessible and
        mainstream.

Facilitate collaboration and learning

Release notes

Documentation

FAQs

Installation

Spotify Plugins for Backstage is a bundle of  premium plugins designed to bring even more of Spotify’s maturity with Backstage to our adopters.
Built by our developers — for your developers — this bundle of plugins puts humans at the center of developer experience and accelerates your Backstage goals.

Spotify Plugins for Backstage

The entity page provides a comprehensive snapshot of a specific entity's tech health. Identify how compliant an entity is to the best practices set by your team and pinpoint specific areas for improvement.


Entity page

A track is a long-term health initiative. It defines the development and operational standards used to measure the health of a software component. Users can design tracks to create tech health targets in line with your organization's needs.


Tracks

A check is the best practice an entity is graded against. Check results are the outcome of running a check against an entity – either pass or fail. If the check fails, you receive feedback on what caused the failure and guidance on how to pass the check, streamlining the feedback loop.


Checks

Certification is the status of passing all checks within a level. You can view your component's certification on the component page. Completing a certification unlocks a fun surprise! 🎉


Certifications

The overview page provides a grid view of all entities owned by specific groups inside your organization and their current tech health. Identify quickly which entities are compliant to your team's best practices and which ones need improvement.


Overview page

No-Code UI is a powerful user interface built into the Soundcheck plugin that allows users to manage checks and tracks without writing yaml code. Prior to No-Code UI, users had to write yaml code to configure a new check or track. Now, non-programmers can add checks and tracks too.


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No-Code UI for tracks and checks management

The Tech Health page provides a single, aggregated view of metrics and trends that gives teams and leaders the ability to understand the tech health of their components. Users can also export chart and tab data in .csv format from the Tech health pages.


Tech Health

The Soundcheck plugin visualizes checks for security, testing, reliability, and other development and operational standards for your software components. Instead of asking your developers to file and respond to yet another ticket, streamline software quality through Soundcheck's clear scorecards, actionable feedback, and positive reinforcement.


Soundcheck

Ensure quality, reliability, and alignment of software development with codified checks and guidance

With Soundcheck, engineering organizations can define development and operational standards, equipping developers with strong guidance and visualization to illustrate how the tech health of their components aligns with their organization's best practices. Take the guesswork out of developing code that aligns to best practices.


Ensure high-quality code

You shouldn't have to work so hard to understand your team's overall tech health. Soundcheck visualizes components' alignment to organizational best practices, so that teams can understand their software ecosystem's tech health at a glance.


Understand the big picture

When owners can easily see the tech health of their components, it incentivizes quality, reliability, and alignment throughout your software ecosystem. Soundcheck encourages and streamlines high-quality and compliant code development.


Cultivate alignment to best practices

Roles make permission decisions in the RBAC plugin. Each role includes a list of members and affiliated permissions. RBAC integrates with Backstage's catalog of users and groups to assign role membership.


Roles

Permissions can be matched to the role by specific permission name, permission properties, or globally. Permissions return policy decisions – either allow, deny or conditional.


Permissions

The RBAC plugin has a condition builder that helps you compose rules corresponding to the permission.


Conditional decisions

The Policy Tester is a powerful feature to simulate your draft and published policies to determine the outcome for specific permissions and roles.

A page showing the policy testing feature. Selection fields for the test criteria (permission and roles) are shown above the results of the test.

Policy tester

After you're done creating a policy, you can publish it. Backstage immediately uses the new policy to make authorization decisions.


Publishing

The RBAC plugin is a no-code management UI for restricting access to plugins, routes, and data
within Backstage. Admins can quickly define roles, assign users and groups, and configure
permissions to encode authorization decisions according to your organization's evolving security
and compliance needs.


Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Control access to actions and data in Backstage with ease

RBAC makes it easy for anyone, not just engineers, to efficiently manage access to resources
and actions in Backstage. With its no-code interface, administrators can easily set up roles
with members and permissions - including complex conditional permissions or those exported
from private plugins.


Simplify access management

The simpler it is to manage role-based access control, the better protected your data will be.
RBAC allows administrators to quickly, flexibly, and easily create, publish, edit, or revert
permission policies to stay up-to-date and compliant with your organization's security needs.


Remain compliant and secure

The Skill Exchange homepage offers search and quick navigation to learning opportunities. The search component allows you to quickly find coworkers with specific skills that can assist you on a project or your learning journey. Or you can explore opportunities to help your coworkers on their learning journeys.


Homepage

Skill Exchange comes with its own skill-centered profile experience. With skill profiles, you categorize, identify, and display skills such as: “I can help with” and “I’m learning.”


Profile

The skill directory is a directory of all the unique combinations of skills that people in your org add to their profiles. You can search across teams to find coworkers that can help you solve a particular problem or find a mentor.


Skill directory

Users can either post an “offering to mentor” or “looking for mentor” details page. Each mentor detail page typically includes contact, location, description, and skill related information.


Mentor

Embeds are short-term work opportunities on other teams. Users can either post or search for embed opportunities. Each embed page typically includes requested skills, description, and contacts.


Embed

Hacks are internal projects driven by developers at a company. Developers typically seek out hacks to grow their skills, work on a passion project, or find folks with similar ideas to collaborate with.


Hack

Skill Exchange is an internal marketplace to promote and seek out unique, on-the-job learning opportunities for your developers and other members of your tech ecosystem. With Skill Exchange, Backstage becomes a hub for custom learning and growth by sharing existing expertise and fostering meaningful collaboration across your organization.


Skill Exchange

Build an internal marketplace for learning and growth opportunities within R&D

Skill Exchange puts employee growth and collaboration at the forefront of the developer experience. Within Backstage, mentors can connect with mentees, teams can connect with temporary help, developers can pair up to program together, and ad hoc teams can assemble to work on hack projects.


Codify growth and connectivity

Talent, knowledge, and experience can often get trapped inside organizational silos. With Skill Exchange, your R&D community can unlock opportunities for collaboration and meaningful connection, no matter where anyone sits in the org chart.


Unlock learnings across your org

Skill Exchange elevates the existing expertise of your current employees, so that your developers and members of your tech org can learn from each other instead of looking and hiring externally. Skill Exchange helps you invest in and develop your current talent.


Elevate existing expertise

Easily identify the most important metrics and trends related to your Backstage instance. Insights surfaces headline metrics like user activation, feedback from recent surveys, and Scaffolder template usage over time. As a Backstage champion, this is your dashboard to quickly understand the success of your organization's Backstage rollout and to identify where there are opportunities for improvement.


Five graphs which hightlight examples of "headline" metrics

Headlines

Want to dive deeper into your Backstage usage data? Insights makes it easy to explore all kinds of data about how your users are engaging with Backstage. Filters allow you to refine your search based on specific criteria, and prebuilt graphs help you understand trends over time.


Three graphs with a filter bar to the left, selected filters include: Segment:Search, Date Range:Last 30 Days, Search Types:techdocs, User Group: imaginary-goats

Usage

Easily collect user feedback about plugins or specific pages in Backstage with short pop-up surveys. As a Backstage champion, you can create surveys with custom questions to identify how users feel about Backstage. View this data alongside your usage data to get a full picture of how your organization is using Backstage and where there are opportunities for improvement.


Left half shows a form which would allow you to create pop-up surveys in your Backstage instance, right half shows a preview of said survey

Feedback

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.


Insights

Analyze Backstage usage and sentiment data from your developers to drive Backstage 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.


Measure user and plugin adoption

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.


Understand user behavior and sentiment

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.


Identify trends

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Meet the plugins

Soundcheck

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Skill Exchange

Insights

What do the plugins do?

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Meet the plugins

Soundcheck

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Skill Exchange

Insights

What do the plugins do?

Additional information

Want to learn more? Book a demo

Spotify Plugins for Backstage
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