July 15, 2024
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Introducing Custom Data Sources, Calculations, and Visualizations in configure8

Unleash the Power of Your Data

We are thrilled to announce an exciting new feature that takes the ability to generate and track engineering metrics to the next level within the configure8 internal developer portal. Our latest update empowers users to seamlessly integrate any data source, run custom calculations across data, and easily build bespoke dashboards and visualizations.

What’s New?

With this update, configure8 now allows you to:

  • Connect Any Data Source: No longer limited to pre-defined integrations, you can now connect configure8 to any data source imaginable. Internally built tools, emerging tools, enterprise data – the choice is yours!
  • Custom Calculations Made Easy: Once your data is brought into configure8, you can manipulate it on the fly in low code. Gone are the days of relying on expensive analytics suites or manually building and maintaining spreadsheets. With configure8, you can now derive insights and perform complex analyses tailored to your specific needs with ease. Whether you need to calculate DORA metrics, custom KPIs, or performance metrics, our platform provides the tools to do it efficiently.
  • Build Stunning Dashboards and Visualizations: Craft beautiful and informative dashboard pages as well as individual charts and tables using the data you've integrated and transformed, all in low code. From DORA dashboards to product- and line-of-business-level reporting, configure8 offers a wide range of visualization options to help you and your team understand and act on your data. Tailor your dashboards to highlight the metrics that matter most to your team, ensuring that everyone from developers to engineering leaders can access the insights they need, when they need them.

Benefits for Your Teams

This exciting new functionality brings a multitude of benefits to your engineering teams and leadership:

  • Unprecedented Data Visibility: Get a holistic view of your entire development landscape by integrating data from all your critical tools and sources.
  • Deeper Insights, Faster: Effortlessly analyze and visualize your data within configure8, eliminating the need for context switching or complex manual reports.
  • Informed Decision-Making: With a clear understanding of your distributed system and team, application development, reliability, security, GRC and other stakeholders can make data-driven decisions that improve KPIs.
  • Increased Developer Productivity: Empower development teams with the information they need, right at their fingertips, leading to faster development cycles and higher quality code.

Get Started Today

We invite you to explore the full potential of configure8's new data flexibility feature. For more details and to get started, visit our product documentation. Embrace the future of data management and visualization with configure8 and transform the way you and your team work with data.

Stay tuned for more updates and enhancements as we continue to innovate and deliver the best tools for our users. Your feedback is invaluable to us, and we look forward to hearing about your experiences with this exciting new feature.

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