Discussions
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Call for research participants: Alert & On-call management
Hey there, I'm from the Compass product team and I'm looking to talk to you! I'm super interested to learn about how your organization and teams manage on-call schedules for supporting your components, how you troubleshoot incidents/alerts today, and what doesn't work so well when it comes to managing operations that you…
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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: 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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Want to try managing on-call schedules and alerts from Compass?
Hey everyone, Josh here from the Compass product team. If you missed it at Team '24, Compass is in the process of bringing features around managing on-call schedules and alerts directly into the product. Soon your development teams can manage their on-call rotations and configure 200+ alert integrations that are Compass…
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Do you use GitLab self-hosted? Well I've got good news for you.
Hey everyone, just wanted to quickly announce that we released a new integration for all the GitLab self-hosted customers out there! Click on the Settings (gear) icon in the top right of Compass and choose "Incoming webhooks" to find our new GitLab self-managed incoming webhook which enables you to get build, deployment,…
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Using Bamboo and Compass? Try this
Hey everyone, I just wanted to quickly share a new article we have on sending build and deployment activity from Bamboo to Compass. The example script in the article will help you send build events, which are just one of the many event types we support and that you can see on the Compass activity feed. If you're using…
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New automation trigger: Scorecard status changed
Hey everyone, we've released a new cross-product automation trigger that can be used to create automation rules in Jira and Confluence that execute when a Compass scorecard changes status (e.g. goes from Green to Red for a component). You could then for example create an automation rule that creates a Jira issue for the…
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Announcement: It's even easier to send Events to Compass now
Hey everyone, Josh here from the Compass product team and I'm here today to tell you how great Events are 🎉 Our events API supports 9 different event types, including Custom, you can send to Compass to capture all sorts of activity happening around your components and teams, and today its easier to use than ever. We…
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Introducing Compass templates
Hey everyone, Josh here from the Compass product team and I’d like to introduce a new major feature of Compass: templates! We’ve heard from lot of customers that having a way to automate the setup and creation of new software components is important. With Compass templates, you can speed up and standardize your software…
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Announcement: Improvements to the activity timeline
Hey everyone, Josh here from the Compass product team and I'm super excited to share that a handful of improvements to the activity (events) timeline have been released to all customers 🎉 Have you ever wanted to filter out certain types of events to reduce the visual noise? What about zoom in/out to get a better view of…
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Updated GitHub environment mappings
Hey everyone, I wanted to share that the GitHub app for Compass now has expanded support for environment names that fall into the ”Production” category for deployment events. Previously, the GitHub app would only process deployment events from GitHub when the name of the environment being used in GitHub Actions was exactly…
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Alerts and On-Call in Compass, now in Early Access
Hey everyone, Josh here from the Compass product team and I'm super excited to announce the Early Access Program (EAP) for new alerts and on-call functionality in Compass 🎉 Rollout will start later today on August 12, 2024 and is expected to reach 100% of the EAP cohort by August 29, 2024. With this new capability, teams…
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Sentry app for Compass is now available
Hey there, Josh here from the Compass product team and I wanted to quickly share that Compass now has a Sentry integration! Sentry is an application performance monitoring and error tracking tool that helps software teams. With the Sentry app for Compass, you can configure your Sentry alerts to send errors & alerts to…
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Keep your component catalog in sync with GitHub automatically
Hey everyone, Josh here from the Compass product team and I wanted to share that we've added a new feature to the GitHub app for Compass that will detect when repositories are created in any connected GitHub organization and automatically create components in Compass for them. With automatic import, you can trust that your…
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New Automation Trigger for Compass in Jira and Confluence Cloud
Hey everyone, Josh here from the Compass product team cross-posting an announcement from my buddy Scott over on the Atlassian Automation Platform team! I am excited to announce a new Automation trigger for Compass now available in both Jira and Confluence Cloud Automation. This also marks our first cross-product trigger,…
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New Compass integration: Comprehensive developer governance and compliance with BlueFlag Security
Hey everyone Josh here from the Compass product team posting on behalf of our friends over at BlueFlag Security! We are excited to bring you the BlueFlag Security-Compass Integration, a powerful tool designed to deliver comprehensive security, governance, and compliance across your entire SDLC process. Find it under "Apps"…
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Select a destination project when using Bitbucket templates
Hey everyone, we wanted to let you know that when creating new components from a Bitbucket template in Compass you can now select which Bitbucket project the new repository gets created in. This should make it much easier to use and access your new repository! Not using Compass templates yet? Learn more about building…
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New feature announcement: Incoming webhooks
Hey everyone, Josh here from the Compass product team and I am really pleased to introduce you to another way to get data for your components into Compass: incoming webhooks. Compass wants to be your single pane of glass that is able to show you activity and insights across components giving you the right information at…
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Bitbucket Cloud support for templates is here!
Hey everyone great news, you can now use Bitbucket Cloud repositories with Compass templates! This feature has been rolled out to everyone so you can get started trying it out right now by navigating to the Templates menu in Compass. First time hearing about templates in Compass? Use them to standardize your tech stacks…
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Now Available: Import components from GitHub!
Hey everyone, Josh here from the Compass product team. I just wanted to quickly let everyone know that the GitHub app for Compass now lets you import your GitHub repositories as Compass components 🎉 On import, we’ll also automatically add a link to the repository and a couple labels to the component in Compass. First make…
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Elevate Your API Documentation with Theneo-Compass Integration
Hey everyone Josh here from the Compass product team posting on behalf of our friends over at Theneo! We are excited to bring you the Theneo-Compass Integration, a powerful tool designed to significantly enhance your API documentation process. Find it under "Apps" in Compass today! At its core, Theneo is designed to meet…
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Introducing the Snyk app for Compass!
Hey everyone Josh here from the Compass product team and today I'd like to introduce you to the new Snyk app for Compass! 🎉 After installing the app and connecting to Snyk, Compass will automatically discover all Snyk targets that match any repository links found on components. The app will then add new metrics for the…
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Build metrics are back for the Bitbucket Cloud app for Compass
Hey everyone, Josh here from the Compass product team. Just a quick public service announcement that Build metrics for the Bitbucket Cloud app are now working again! We had temporarily disabled this while investigating a more scalable solution. All components with Bitbucket Cloud links should again have the "Build time"…
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It’s here! Create components from YAML with config as code!
Hey everyone, Josh here from the Compass product team and I’m REALLY excited to share a highly requested feature: you can now create new components in Compass directly by adding a compass.yaml file to a connected git repository with our config as code feature. Checkout our docs for more information! If you aren’t taking…
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Announcement: Config as code enhancements, including support for labels and custom fields
Hey everyone, Josh here from the Compass product team and I’m really excited to share that config as code now supports managing component labels, custom fields, the lifecycle attribute, and changing component type! Config as code is a way to describe and manage your components using a "compass.yaml file" that gets added to…
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Feedback Request - First look at Compass Templates
Hey everyone, Josh here from the product team. We're hard at work exploring a new feature for Compass that we think is really exciting - Templates! Today Compass enables you to easily bring existing components into the product via multiple avenues but we don't yet give you a way to create new software projects, with…
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New app: Release Notes by Rlsly. Stay on top of release notes, and share product updates with ease.
Hey everyone, I wanted to let you know about a new app that is now available to all customers: Release Notes by the team at Rlsly.com. Rlsly is an all-in-one products learning platform that combines all release notes in one place to help you learn about new features, important security updates, on your terms. Release notes…
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Would a Compass CLI tool be useful?
Hey everyone, Josh here from the product team. Would a Compass CLI tool be useful to you? Examples of use cases could be: * create/read/update/delete/list components, scorecards, metrics, teams * bulk operations for the above (e.g. bulk delete) * generate compass.yaml (with optional parameter injection) * send a metric…
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Using the CircleCI app for Compass? Please create a new API token
Hey there, Josh here from the Compass product team. As you may have heard, CircleCI recently experienced a security incident that led to all Personal API Tokens created before 5 January 2023 being revoked. As a result, in order to ensure that you continue to receive deployments and builds via the CircleCI integration for…
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Non-admin users can now import components from Compass apps!
Hey everyone, Josh here from the Compass product team. Over the last month we’ve been working on making it possible for non-admin users to import components from our Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, and New Relic apps into Compass. Until now, if you didn’t have the admin role in Compass you could create components manually but…