Swarmia Reviews & Product Details

All team metrics in one location between GitHub and Jira. Set up and Integration was quick and painless. Easy team configurations and even tools to narrow scope for our needs. I'm using the product every day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have yet to solve the separation between Dev metrics and QA metrics. I would really like to see the split between PR time in Dev vs QA. Another problem yet to solve - individual metrics. It's kind of there, but it's not quick and easy. It would be great to have a configuration tool that let me design the individual metrics I'm looking for. Very handy for annual reviews. Tagging would be nice when it comes to bugs. I'd like to see which bugs came from Productions vs UAT, etc... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The trial & onboarding experience made it easy to see what value we would get out of adopting Swarmia. A lot of useful data started to populate just by sharing access to our development tools, and there were workflows to help us identify and correct misaligned data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We want to keep our existing development tools as the source of truth, but Swarmia also wants to be the source of truth, so it can be confusing where to make categorization adjustments. It can be tedious to skip past Swarmia's own view of a work item, to get to our existing ticketing system's view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the clarity of Swarmia's dashboards and the focus on trends rather than raw numbers, which makes the data actionable without micromanagement. It's easy to find bottlenecks in processes and recognize patterns, which helps in having more objective conversations with the team based on data. The data is also useful at a leadership level. Additionally, I appreciate that the initial setup was quite easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The level of customization could be more flexible, so there's some space for improvement. Also, the pricing model is tightly tied to GitHub seats, even though not all users in the GitHub organization necessarily require analytics (to be tracked). It would be helpful to have more flexibility around integrations customization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how easy it was to set up Swarmia. It's great that it offers a good list of presets, which helps us know what to focus on weekly. This feature gives our developers a top of mind focus and helps us collectively try and hit our goals for the next week. Additionally, using Swarmia, we're able to measure cycle time better, see when pull requests and issues are over the time limits, and use the agreements feature. These aspects have helped us improve our cycle time and, in turn, our development velocity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We do mobile app development, and it's not completely clear what we should focus on. Dora somewhat works, but due to the review times and release and deployment times, it's not necessarily the best metric. I'm still working out what the best metrics are for mobile app development, and Swarmia could better guide me in that process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like Swarmia's clear UI, which helps me understand at a glance and removes hurdles by showing me the numbers I'm interested in. The charts and explanations are clear, and the documentation is helpful when I want to dig deeper. I also appreciate the good Slack notifications that help me stay on top of what's going on in GitHub, especially for tracking PR reviews and comments. The initial setup was quite easy, just logging in and configuring access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We'd like to be able to configure custom GitHub actions for deployments. We have a specific GitHub action we use for deploys, so every run of that action means a deploy. That would mean easier configuration of deployments for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Out the box DORA metrics. Easy setup. Opinionated but flexible.

As a CTO it allowed me to get all the metrics without much time commitment.

Setup took less than half an hour. And then it just started working.

Developers have loved it - it hasn't got in their way, but provided helpful insights that they've taken on board. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only small issue that I've come across was around adding other users to view dashboards.

I set things up using Github accounts - which seemed intuitive. Yet the CEO and product manager don't have a Github account, so they aren't able to log in and view dashboards.

Swarmia do have the ability to convert users to Google auth - so they've solved this problem. But this was the only point of friction that I experienced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use Swarmia to track the engineering team metrics like cycle time, AI adoption, and PR review cycle. I appreciate that Swarmia proactively fetches data from Linear and GitHub, making it visible for engineering managers like me. I also like the smooth user experience, nice UI, and having one single dashboard. The initial setup was easy, just add GitHub, add Slack, and done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Customization is super limited. Swarmia provides certain data points, and that's all. I don't know how to combine them to create dashboards focused on the items I want to see. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The onboarding experience is well guided and takes a lot of the guess work out of setting something like this up. Especially the integrations with the various engineering tools to bring all the data into the one place.

The implementation was straight forward and provided a large number of insights out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are some defaults that Swarmia don't make obvious, so it was a little tricky identifying areas in our CI/CD that are custom, where we could improve the process to help the tool work better for us. Not a massive issue, we just wanted to get the most out of Swarmia and when the initial numbers didn't look right, we had to track it down within our pipeline manually to find the discrepancies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like the user interface of Swarmia; it's incredibly intuitive and easy to navigate. This greatly enhances my experience, ensuring that accessing the necessary features is straightforward and efficient. The insights provided by Swarmia are highly beneficial and actionable, significantly aiding my team in improving our performance metrics. I find these insights particularly valuable as they enable us to actively enhance our team's capabilities and posture. Additionally, I appreciate that the initial setup of Swarmia was very easy, saving us time and effort in integrating this tool into our workflow. The fact that Swarmia provides most of the insights we need without requiring additional tools is another aspect I appreciate, adding to its functionality and utility for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm disappointed that Swarmia is missing the MTTR (Mean Time to Recovery) metric stats from an incident management perspective. Ideally, these metrics should be based on data from tools like PagerDuty, where the time to recovery would accurately reflect how long it takes us to recover from incidents. Additionally, I would like to see comparisons with industry benchmarks for DORA metrics to understand if our team's metrics are categorized as Low, Medium, High, or Elite. These enhancements would provide more comprehensive and valuable insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Swarmia gives me full visibility into the development process without micromanaging. I particularly value metrics like Flow Efficiency, Cycle Time, and Focus Summary, which help us track productivity trends and identify bottlenecks. The ability to group work by initiatives and use granular filters (such as issue type, label, or assignee) lets me tailor reports to the needs of different stakeholders. I also appreciate how Swarmia highlights things like scope creep or delivery interruptions, so I can proactively address issues with the team or client. For me, the tool is intuitive and provides just the right amount of actionable insight without overwhelming me with data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes, Swarmia classifies scope changes (like adding a small bug fix during review) as scope creep, which can be misleading. I’d love to see more flexibility in how these events are categorized or allow us to mark some changes as “minor.” Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.