Engineering leadership

Let's explore Backstage, the problems it attempts to solve, and considerations to make before bringing it into your organization.

Enabling Service Ownership is our north star at OpsLevel. We believe that true service ownership is the future of DevOps and a key to building agile, efficient engineering teams. As a part of making service ownership a reality, we’ve recognized that teams own services, not people. But of course, when you need to get something done urgently, you want to talk to a person, not a team. That’s why OpsLevel now supports tracking functional team membership alongside core service metadata.

Years ago, end-to-end software development involved dividing tasks based on where they fell in the system life cycle. One team wrote the code. Then another team deployed it to production. And yet another team monitored and maintained the service. This led to a lot of friction, needless handoffs, and bottlenecks.

OpsLevel contains a ton of information about your technical services and systems, but it doesn’t contain all of the information about your business. Fortunately the data in OpsLevel isn’t trapped there! In addition to our existing GraphQL API, we now support extracting all of your OpsLevel data into your ETL pipeline and data warehouse.

OpsLevel is a great place to work. I love the product, the values…the snacks, but most importantly, the people. Our team isn’t large, but our size makes us extremely tightly knit. We eat lunch together, play lunchtime foosball, chat about things like kids and mortgage rates, and play after work video games (mostly Rocket League) almost every day.

We here at Team OpsLevel have been busy and are proud to announce our newest feature: reports. With reports, it’s easy to see the health of your teams and services at a glance.