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Atlassian Compass

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An extensible developer experience platform that centralizes information about engineering output and team collaboration, providing a unified, real-time map of a company's entire software development lifecycle and architecture.

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Atlassian Compass serves as a central mission control for modern engineering organizations, designed to tame the complexity of distributed architectures. It helps platform engineering teams, developers, and architects map, understand, and collaborate on their vast ecosystem of microservices, APIs, and software components. Its core value proposition is to reduce cognitive load by creating a single pane of glass for all technical components and their associated documentation, ownership, and health metrics. By providing a searchable component catalog and configurable health scorecards, Compass enables teams to improve developer onboarding, enforce standards, and track technical debt. Ultimately, it aims to boost developer productivity and satisfaction by making complex systems navigable and manageable.

Pros

  • Deep native integration with the Atlassian ecosystem, including Jira, Bitbucket, and Confluence.
  • Provides a centralized, single source of truth for software components, their owners, and dependencies.
  • Scorecards feature allows teams to define and enforce engineering standards and best practices at scale.
  • Automated documentation and component updates via `compass.yml` files in Git repositories.
  • Extensible platform through Atlassian Forge, allowing for custom applications and integrations.

Cons

  • High dependency on broad adoption across the engineering organization to realize its full value.
  • Can add to tool fatigue, becoming 'just another pane of glass' if not implemented with a clear strategy.
  • Scorecards and health metrics require significant upfront configuration and team consensus.
  • May present a steeper learning curve for teams not already invested in the Atlassian toolchain.

Key features

  • Software Component Catalog
  • Health and Best-Practices Scorecards
  • Team and Developer Profiles
  • Extensibility with Atlassian Forge
  • Automated component discovery and metadata sync via compass.yml
  • Checklists for production readiness and incident response
  • Dependency mapping
  • Activity feed for component changes

Integrations

Jira SoftwareBitbucket CloudConfluenceGitHubGitLabJenkinsOpsgenieSnykPagerDutyDatadog

Target audience

Platform engineering teams, software developers, engineering managers, and site reliability engineers (SREs) in organizations with complex, distributed systems or microservice architectures.

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Founded

2023

Headquarters

Sydney, Australia

Pricing Tiers

Free

For small teams getting started. Includes up to 3 users, the software component catalog, app integrations, and basic developer & team information.

Free

Standard

For growing teams scaling their practices. Includes everything in Free for unlimited users, plus Health Scorecards, Checklists, Team Dashboards, and standard support.

$5/mo

Premium

For organizations that need advanced insights and controls. Includes everything in Standard, plus custom fields, project-level permissions, data residency, and 24/7 Premium support.

$12/mo

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