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Haystack analyzes GitHub data and provides team level insights to help you improve delivery. Visualize your delivery pipeline from first commit to deploy and get real-time Slack alerts for burnout, PRs stuck in review, and more while utilizing only the best "NorthStar" metrics backed by extensive research.

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Haystack Analytics

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English

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Kan Yilmaz

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STARTUP

$25

Dev / Month

GROWTH

$30

Dev / Month

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Potential burnout of the team.

Cycle Time is from the first commit to merge of a pull request.

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Andres H.

Development Team Lead

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/2/2022

"It is a nice tool for management, but I use it just because I have to, not because I want to."

3.5/5

What do you like best about Haystack?

It offers nice graphs and metrics, for example, Change Lead Time, Deployment Frequency, Throughput, Change Failure Rate, Mean Time To Recover, and Full Resolution Time (For Bugs). They recently included Code Review stats and that's very nice because I can see how much I am doing in terms of code review. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Haystack?

I don't dislike anything, the problem is that I don't know how to use most of these metrics to improve my daily work, so I can consider them as "They are ok but useless for me". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/29/2021

"Simple yet powerfull feedback and engineering performance measurement tool"

5/5

What do you like best about Haystack?

- simple configuration of the tool

- close integration of DORA metrics

- very precise onboarding, explanation of all details of the tool

- excellent support over the Slack channel

- Self-explanatory graphs with a drill-down to detailed data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Haystack?

While we are in transition to continuous delivery, we need to separate measurements between stages. At this moment, there are just global filters for pull requests which do not allow applying a specific filter for the exact DORA metric. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Haystack:

At Smartsupp, we've used Haystack for about 3 months.

Smartsupp is a SaaS company where agile culture and DevOps mindset go together naturally. What we really needed, is to measure our performance. Prior to using Haystack, we felt that our Cycle Time is on the increase, with it taking longer and longer for engineers to ship software. Since we've started using Haystack, our Cycle Time has so far decreased by an average of 27%.

Measurement in Haystack allows us to drill-in on the things that matter most to improving our software development pipelines on a daily basis. We're seeing work being developed quicker, whilst we've seen our First Response Time on Pull Requests drop.

Thanks to real-time alerts via Slack on risk factors, teams can resolve most issues themselves. Haystack has helped take work off my plate and I'd recommend it to others in a Head of Engineering role, who wants to strengthen the responsibility and performance of development teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Haystack solving and how is that benefiting you?

We missed a measurement of our performace to get feedback on our work/performace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/21/2022

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"Insights from the top-down"

5/5

What do you like best about Haystack?

Provides engineering North Star metrics from the top-down, allowing you to find where bottlenecks are in the software development lifecycle. Risk alerts provide very easy to understand, fast insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Haystack?

The company behind it is a fast-growing start-up, so some things are in the future roadmap and other things are still being scaled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Haystack:

If you're unsure, go through the free trial and see how it goes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Haystack solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used Haystack when I worked leading an internal developer platform team at a later-stage start-up - it allowed me to know which areas I need to focus on to improve, and gave me empirical proof to show that I had moved those metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/18/2022

"A tool for building high performance teams"

5/5

What do you like best about Haystack?

- Simple integration

- Performance metrics are based on team performance, not individuals

- DORA metrics

Overall, when it's necessary to measure the team performance and improve shipping speed, Haystack provides valuable insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Haystack?

The web interface works slow sometimes. I would be happy to use a more modern interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/1/2022

"The way to track value when building Products"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Haystack?

When we wanted to track the velocity of our team then wanted to stay close to the source of truth. With Github integration we can track our performance in delivering value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Haystack?

Its an start up with more features coming soon in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Denali L.

Member Board Of Directors

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/3/2021

"High Value Metrics for Continuous Delivery"

5/5

What do you like best about Haystack?

Haystack was absolutely a lifesaver for us to get insight with more fidelity and more fine-grain awareness. Having all the Metrics in one place at the company to show to the Board and Executive team in a really quantitative and data-driven way was extremely valuable and valuable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Haystack?

Some performance lag and functional bugs at times, though many of these have been addressed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kelvin T.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/28/2020

"Git-based analytics that's just right"

5/5

What do you like best about Haystack?

Quantifying our team's software delivery performance is made a lot easier with Haystack's focused dashboards, which is helpful in any analysis of our engineering processes. I'm also able to easily view at a glance WIP/long-lived PRs across repos that may be an indicator of chokepoints in the process.

Julian has also been very receptive to feedback, and I believe the team is on the right track in tackling some of the issues with git-based analytics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Haystack?

Some key integrations with communication tools (e.g. Slack) would be very useful in elevating the visibility of the metrics & insights from this solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Haystack:

Try it out! It's pretty lightweight to start off with and costs nothing (at the time of my review) to trial this solution out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Haystack solving and how is that benefiting you?

Haystack has helped me measure key parts of my team's software delivery performance over time (cycle time, throughput). This has been useful in communicating our engineering capabilities to management, as well as in debugging the software development processes for various teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gady P.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/25/2020

"Haystack helps me focus on the engineering metrics that make the most impact for my team"

5/5

What do you like best about Haystack?

Historical performance. Being able to see how the metrics have changed over time, whether it's over 6 months or the last sprint. Getting performance summaries in my inbox that I can easily bring to 1-on-1s and team check-ins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Haystack?

There are still a few options that I would love to see implemented into the product to make it better. That being said, the team is incredibly responsive and receptive to feedback. I have watched the product get better as I have used it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Haystack:

I highly recommend giving Haystack a try, even just for their free trial. In my experience this simple product provides engineering leaders with a ton of value to be better leaders and make their orgs better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Haystack solving and how is that benefiting you?

As an engineering leader, I now have a clear idea how my team is getting better and faster relative to historical performance, and where we need to make improvements, backed by data instead of hunches. The metrics available in Haystack are spot on, anything more is unnecessary, overwhelming, or noisy. Surprisingly affordable as well compared to competitors like GitPrime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Demi B. Y.

Co-Founder

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/5/2020

"Best tool for git analytics"

5/5

What do you like best about Haystack?

While scaling, we had no idea of how our team was working while the communication complexity was growing exponentially. Haystack gives us alerts every day on potential problems. We iterate our processes after seeing issues that we had no idea about. They also provide a simple dashboard to see the effect of each change. After Haystack, our Cycle Time decreased by 70%. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Haystack?

It'd be great if they also gave notifications on Slack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Haystack:

Just enter their trial, its very easy with a few clicks on github. It'll give you insights on your software team that you haven't considered before and show its value right on the first week. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Haystack solving and how is that benefiting you?

It gives us an overview of how our teams are doing. We've decreased cycle time, increased merge ratios, and increased our throughput. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sagar S.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/26/2020

"Actionable insights"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Haystack?

Lots to love here. The Process Report helped us identify bottlenecks before they even happened through unhealthy patterns. Activity heatmap helps me see how meetings and deployment schedules affected my team’s productivity in real time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Haystack?

They don't plug into JIRA (yet) which is something we could use but the team actually built a custom quarterly report for me to tie in our JIRA workflows which was really helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.