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Measure the right things at every level of the organization

Improve engineering productivity and developer experience by tracking a balanced set of research-backed engineering metrics.
Swarmia powers modern software organizations from startups to enterprises
Miro
Docker
Webflow
WeTransfer
Pleo
Matillion
Factorial
TrueLayer
TheGuarantors
Gorgias
Smartly
Choco

Relevant metrics for every role

The data a VPE needs to do their job is very different from the information a software engineer requires to do theirs. Swarmia caters to both levels — and everything in between.
Get immediate visibility into key engineering metrics across all groups and teams.
Engineering leaders
Get immediate visibility into key engineering metrics across all groups and teams.
Proactively identify and fix teamwork bottlenecks as they occur.
Engineering managers
Get your code reviewed faster and never let PRs fall through the cracks again.
Software engineers
Measure the impact of organization-wide productivity improvements.
Platform teams
Get reliable data for software cost capitalization reporting.
Finance teams
What I really like about Swarmia is that everyone in the product engineering organization uses it in different ways. They all get value out of it, but that value changes based on their role.
Silvia Di Nardo
Senior Engineering Manager, TrueLayer

Out-of-the-box support for DORA & SPACE

When you’re just getting started on your developer productivity journey, DORA and SPACE are often great places to start. Swarmia makes tracking both a breeze.
We found ourselves building commodity metrics like DORA and SPACE — and facing the complexity that comes with it. Swarmia allows us to focus on driving insights and change, instead of building and maintaining dashboards.
Walter de Bruijn
Head of Engineering Productivity at Miro

Here are some of the metrics you can track with Swarmia

Swarmia only surfaces measures with a proven correlation to business outcomes, developer productivity, and developer experience.
PR cycle time
Get pull requests through faster by eliminating common bottlenecks.
Deployment frequency
Keep track of how often your teams are deploying code to production.
Investment distribution
Understand where engineering time goes and make better prioritization decisions.
Bug insights
Stay on top of the bugs your team is working on and the time it takes to fix them.
Batch size
Roll out features to your customers faster and with less risk.
CI insights
Troubleshoot pipeline issues to reduce CI wait times and costs.
Review time
Identify review bottlenecks and get your work merged faster.
Review rate
Maintain high code quality by maximizing the percentage of reviewed code.
WIP limits
Allow teams to set their own work-in-progress limits to gain focus.
With Swarmia, we’re able to highlight problem areas, set target levels, and drive continuous improvement.
Alex Plugaru
Co-Founder & CTO at Gorgias

Metrics alone don’t drive change

Improve developer productivity in practice by combining engineering metrics with actionable targets, Slack notifications, and developer experience surveys.

Works with the tools you already use

Swarmia combines data from your codebase and issue tracker. It also integrates with chat to speed up developer workflows.
Start improving developer productivity and experience today.