Checks

Looking to unlock the power of the best Backstage plugins? Find out which ones to use, how to choose the right plugins for your team, and the OpsLevel plugin for Backstage.

The top three application security metrics every engineering team should track, along with tooling recommendations to ensure accurate metrics and awareness across teams.

In this article, we'll explore software development standards, along with best practices for software development.

Learn about the benefits of a Software Catalog and what to look for.

Learn how OpsLevel empowers security teams to enforce best practices across product development teams. With the Service Maturity Rubric, security teams can define, track, and report on compliance with critical security standards like vulnerability scanning, key rotation, and PII classification—all in one centralized platform.

Shifting to a microservice architecture comes with well-known benefits. Isolation between systems and teams means feature teams can iterate faster and the entire software engineering organization can scale with more efficiency and agility.

OpsLevel helps keep your services consistent and healthy through the use of various pre-built checks. But what if you want to write your own checks from scratch? You can now do that with OpsLevel custom checks. Our custom checks API opens up endless possibilities, allowing you to do things such as integrating with your deployment pipeline or container orchestrator, writing your own check scripts, and more.

In the rapidly evolving space of internal developer portals (IDPs), two platforms often stand out for their customizability and community support: Port and Backstage. Both offer the promise of creating a tailored internal developer experience, but the path to getting there is fraught with challenges—high setup costs, long implementation times, and excessive complexity. For engineering teams seeking fast, reliable solutions, these platforms may fall short. In this article, we’ll compare Port and Backstage, exploring their pros and cons, and highlighting why OpsLevel offers a more scalable and efficient alternative for organizations looking to improve developer autonomy and streamline service management.

Create checks to track package versions.