Hello Compass Community,
You’ve asked. We’re listening. Over the past two months, we’ve worked quickly to ship dozens of new features and enhancements to Compass, your developer experience platform (log in here if you're already signed up).
This is based directly on the feedback of thousands of platform engineers and developers using Compass to help reduce cognitive load within their teams. We’ve shared some of the highlights below.
We’d also love to meet any of you in-person or digitally in Las Vegas for Team '23, April 18-20. Be sure to register soon to save 50% on your in-person pass.
What’s included this month:
🗓️ Join us at Team '23
How to use Compass APIs: Authentication and GraphQL in minutes
Bring the whole squad: New identity types for custom fields
See what’s changed in real-time: Activity feed enhancements
Cross-product search with Jira Software and Confluence
Improved global metric definition management
Build and enforce advanced scorecard policies with regex
🔗 Jira Software components link to Compass
Don’t forget to log into Compass today to see your latest health scorecards and metrics.
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Compass can be extended to work with an organization’s entire toolchain and track whichever metrics and data you deem important. Developer Kairo Phan explains how to get started using our open APIs in this 3-part video series with open-source examples to help you get building.
1️⃣ Authentication: Setup authorization for Compass API requests
2️⃣ GraphQL Examples: Queries and Mutations
Each component in your architecture maps cleanly to a single owner, right? If only the world were so simple! Now you can capture all the nuance by assigning additional Team owners the custom field type user
. Assign specific people to fields like “Owner”, “Escalate To”, “Group Lead”, “Architect” and anything else you can dream up and keep all key parties informed.
🔍 Navigate to your Custom fields settings UI in Compass
👉 Click the Create custom field button
✏️ Define your field’s parameters and choose the applicable component types
The activity feed does the heavy lifting to keep key information about your software up to date in real-time, displaying all relevant activity for a given component and its dependencies in a single view. The Compass events API is completely extensible and by default offers deployment
, build
, incident
, feature flag
, alert
, lifecycle
, push
, and custom
events. We’ve released several enhancements to help you see changes in real-time:
Activity feed on component detail overview page for greater visibility and contextual relevance
Display all commit events complete with info & URL links from Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab out of the box
Environment filter sorts events by dev, staging, prod, or any other desired category
Head over to your Compass homepage and see what’s happening on your activity feed.
We’re making it easier to work across your toolchain, from tracking software health to sprint planning and documentation. Compass, Jira Software, and Confluence are now cross-searchable allowing you to quickly find relevant components directly within Jira and Confluence to help you tie the health of your technical architecture to your sprint planning rituals.
💻 Head over to your desired Jira Software or Confluence workspace
👉 Click on the search bar and select Compass from the product list
🔍 Search to your heart’s content
Define it once, track it everywhere! Global metric definitions provide a central mechanism to track component performance consistently across your organization. With Compass' open API you can consistently track any component metrics to a component whether it’s Build Time, Deployment Frequency, or anything else, all your teams will be on the same page.
💻 Navigate to your Compass Health UI
👉 Click on Metrics on the left panel
🩺 Click the Create Metric button and define any metric you like
💻 Navigate to your Compass Health UI
👉 Click on an existing scorecard and select edit, or create a new one
➕ Add a new field criterion, select “a specific link is added” for validation
✏️ Define your regex
We plan to add more data and visual panels, so let us know what you want to see and connect your Jira instance to Compass today.
💻 Head over to your desired Jira Software project
👉 Select an issue from a project board
⚙️ Click the Compass component field in the right panel and add the desired component
Wayne Dailey
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