Swarmia Reviews & Product Details

I love Swarmia because they truly understand how a tech department works and what is needed. They always iterate and listen to feedback, and their support is superb. I find the investment category split useful because it shows how our work is divided, and I value their DORA metrics and AI adoption features. The custom reports are handy, and I also found the initial setup to be very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The surveys can be improved to be more customizable, like with scales. I'd like to move our surveys to Swarmia. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

I like the Slack integration in Swarmia, especially the way it can poke you and tell what's pending and if something is waiting for attention. It's really convenient to give reactions directly from Slack. I also appreciate the instant updates on Slack and the focus on code metrics and DORA metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The pricing part of Swarmia is a concern. We're thinking of switching to other tools like PulseCheckAI because those tools are way cheaper, even though they don't come close in terms of ease. But the pricing strategy is a big plus for them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find Swarmia really useful because it provides metrics about our dev team and about GitHub Actions that we can't easily access anywhere else. The UI is quite nice and presents a large amount of data in a well-understandable and structured way. It's easy to find information and navigate between the different metrics. The initial setup was very easy, which was great for getting started quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think it would be nice to have metrics about developers. I know it's not good to compare, but still there would be interesting things. Like which repo has which 'implicit owners / most active developers'? or does a developer tend to implement more frontend or more backend? It's already possible today, but very difficult via filtering. 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.