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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 is trusted by great software organizations from startups to enterprises
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.
Engineering leaders
Get immediate visibility into key engineering metrics across all groups and teams.
Engineering managers
Software engineers
Platform teams
Finance teams
“Having easy access to industry standard metrics like DORA helps us have informed discussions with other departments. Engineering is typically one of the most expensive resources, and DORA metrics help us prove that we are still shipping fast without introducing too many new bugs to the system.”
Alex Plugaru
Co-Founder & CTO at Gorgias
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. Building and maintaining them in-house is a waste of capacity because there are specialized vendors dedicated to delivering them.”
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.
“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
Head of Product Engineering Operations, TrueLayer
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.