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The Next Chapter for Compass
Hey everyone 👋 We recently published a blog post about where Compass is headed, and I wanted to break it down here for the community. TL;DR: Compass is being phased out and its core capabilities (catalog and scorecards) will be delivered through the DX platform. Why the change? Compass was built to answer: What do I own,…
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Announcement: Templates feature to be removed from Compass on December 1, 2025
What’s changing? We’re deprecating and removing Templates in Compass, effective December 1, 2025. This change is part of our ongoing effort to focus on features that bring the most value to our customers. This page explains: What’s happening and when How this affects you What you need to do Where to get help What are…
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Compass Scorecards 🤝 Atlas Goals: Connect technical initiatives to business objectives
Hello Atlassian Community! 👋 We're thrilled to announce a powerful new integration between Compass Scorecards with Atlas Goals to help teams better prioritize and track their technical health initiatives, taking the guesswork out of how to move scorecards from red to green. 👀 How it Works When you link a scorecard to an…
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🚀 New in Compass: Vertical Dependencies (“contains/contained by”)!
We’re excited to announce the launch of vertical dependencies in Compass! 🎉 What’s new? You can now model hierarchical relationships between your components using the new “contains/contained by” dependency type. This means you can represent how components are grouped by application, capability, etc. right alongside…
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🎉 Introducing Auto-Population for the Compass Catalog
We’re excited to announce that Compass now auto-populates an accurate, comprehensive software catalog on day one with zero manual setup for all new users. What’s new? Compass now automatically populates the catalog by using the Teamwork Graph (TWG)! When you onboard to Compass, you’ll see components for all the…
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Introducing Package Dependency tracking in Compass
Update June 16 2025 Automatic syncing has been enabled for linked Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab repos, via the SCM apps. Also, scorecards now support package dependencies. Next up - support for more package managers! After integrating Compass with their repository to track development events and metrics, customers look for…
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Building Compass: Our Developer Platform Journey
Hi Atlassian Community! Today, we’re excited to give you an inside look at how Compass was brought to life here at Atlassian. With the growing complexity of modern software systems, engineering teams often face the challenge of organizing their services. At Atlassian, we experienced this firsthand as we saw our own systems…
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Upcoming Compass Maintenance Window
Hello to the Compass customer community, We wanted to share with all of you, our valued customers about an upcoming required maintenance. The maintenance will take place on September 21st, 2025 between 3:30 pm UTC and 4:30 pm UTC. This maintenance will impact write access to your Compass Component API Specifications. There…
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Guide: Create ServiceNow Incident Events in Compass Using Custom Webhooks
Compass recently released an update to our Custom Webhooks for Compass app to support the Incident event type. Using this feature, you can now create a Custom Webhook to receive Incident events from ServiceNow. This guide will walk through all of the set up steps needed in Compass and in ServiceNow to build this…
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Using the Compass API: GraphQL Samples
Hello, Compass community! For the second part of our “Using the Compass API” series, we’ll show you a couple of different ways you can start using GraphQL queries and mutations, so you don’t have to write them yourself. If you haven’t seen it, check out our first post on authenticating the Compass API. If this video was…
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Introducing Scorecard Maturity Levels: A More Motivational Path to Software Health
Hi Compass community! We’re excited to announce a major update to Compass scorecards: Maturity Levels. This new feature improves how teams track and celebrate progress toward software health, making the journey more motivating and actionable for everyone. Why maturity levels? Until now, Compass scorecards have used a…
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Looking for beta testers - Custom Incoming Webhook and Deployment events/metrics
Hey everyone, we're looking for some feedback on a new approach to helping get data into Compass using what we call a custom incoming webhook. Today we've got a few "branded" incoming webhooks to help you get events & metrics into Compass purely through webhooks (no apps, no auth setup needed), but we've long dreamed of…
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Announcement: Verified scorecards
Introducing Verified Scorecards for Compass: Prioritize What Matters Most Hi all! We’re excited to announce the launch of Verified Scorecards, a new feature designed to help teams cut through the noise and focus on what’s truly important in Compass. What’s the Value? Reduce noise: Highlight the scorecards that matter most,…
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Introducing a faster way to manage your software architecture: Rovo Dev CLI 🎉
Hello Atlassian Community! 👋 We’re excited to introduce Rovo Dev new command-line interface (CLI) for Compass, making it easier than ever to manage your software architecture and services directly from your terminal. Now, you can explore your system’s components, track dependencies, and monitor service health, all without…
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We have launched more Operations features in Compass
TL;DR - we have launched a few more Operations features in Compass Hello everyone! Following our Limited Availability release in October, we are super pleased to announce the launch of a few more features in Compass that will help super charge your Alert and On-call practice. Here’s a quick preview of the features we have…
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Import your Jira components into Compass via Python script
Hi everyone, I'm back with another update on how to get started with Compass components. For more information about the feature, please read Compass Components in Jira Software are coming! and Addressing feedback about Compass components in JSW + a new admin control. A common request we've received is for the ability to…
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[New webinar] Discover how Compass drives DevEx and productivity at Atlassian
Join us to discover how Atlassian built and implemented Compass, our internal developer platform (IDP), to tackle the challenges of building a great developer experience at scale and navigate the growing complexity of software development. Learn from our real-world experience managing thousands of services and improving…
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Get more assistance while setting up Operations in Compass
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new onboarding panel in the Operations section of Compass called "Your Coach". The Your Coach panel will help you and your teams understand the basic steps you need to undertake to set up an on-call responder team and give you step by step guidance. The Your Coach panel comprises…
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DevEx Roundup: Link Technical Initiatives to Business Goals
Compass Communique: May 2025 Hello Compass Community, From connecting technical initiatives to business goals, to enhancing security monitoring and component dependencies, we're rolling out powerful new features to help your teams prioritize the work that matters. Plus, get ready for an unforgettable Team '25 Europe…
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New vulnerability and alert derived metrics in Compass
About derived metrics Derived metric values are automatically calculated based on the events received for your Compass component. For example, the Deployment Frequency metric is derived from deployment events. As you ingest deployment events on your component, you'll see the metric automatically recalculate. Compass has…
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Introducing the Security metrics library scorecard and enhanced Snyk Integration for Compass
We recently added a new Security metrics library scorecard backed by an enhanced Snyk integration. These new features are designed to help teams of all sizes implement, measure, and improve security standards across their software components. Why Security Scorecards? Security is a top priority for every engineering…
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Announcement: SonarQube integration rolling out
Hey everyone, I'm excited to share a new integration with SonarQube that brings in a new metric for Quality Gates! To setup SonarQube with Compass, click "Create", then "Incoming webhooks", click "Create", and choose "SonarQube" from the dropdown. Following the setup steps in Compass you'll get a URL and some instructions…
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Announcement: Open beta for team aggregated scorecard view
Hi all! We are excited to announce the open beta release of team aggregated scorecard views. These will be available to all customers starting today and in future will be a premium offering. With aggregated scorecards, your team can quickly understand the state of their component health and action on it. This represents…
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Introducing Compass's ChatOps app for Slack for alert and on-call management
TL;DR We have launched Slack ChatOps in Compass Hi Everyone, Following our previous update on launching more Operations features in Compass, we are super pleased to announce that Slack ChatOps for Compass is now available to wider audience. Compass customers can now use the existing Compass Slack application to receive…
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Keep your team aligned with scheduled scorecard summaries in Slack
Keeping your team aligned and informed about your progress improving software health can be challenging. Many organizations struggle with ensuring that all team members are aware of the current status of their software health, especially when it comes to understanding which components are not meeting expectations. This…