Haystack Reviews & Product Details

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.

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.

- 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.

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.

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.

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.

- 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Understand if there's too much work in progress or if a team or individual is at risk of burnout Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the stats are not very actionable and it's not clear how to use them to help empower the team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.