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Cristiano S.
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What do you like best about Sleuth?

The easy of use, the cost, the possibility to integrate it with the most used ci\cd pipelines, the dashboard. I configured it in a couple of minutes! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sleuth?

Maybe some premium features that could also be available with the standard plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We're growing as a team so we wanted to start measuring performance metrics in order to remove bottlenecks and to improve our it organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sleuth Overview

What is Sleuth?

Sleuth helps Engineering leaders achieve business alignment and ensure predictable delivery with operational excellence. It does that by offering all three key components of a highly successful Engineering metrics program: Metrics, Reviews, and Automations. Metrics that Sleuth delivers include quantitative ones such as DORA metrics, as well as qualitative ones such as DevEx score that fit frameworks like SPACE. Reviews are Sleuth's secret sauce for turning metric insights into real outcomes and ultimately business value. Examples of Reviews include: monthly State of Engineering check-ins, resource allocation planning, operations reviews, sprint reviews, and more. Sleuth provides pre-built, auto-populated, and AI-powered templates and a code review-like collaboration workflow to make such Reviews painless and productive. Automations allows you to improve both developer productivity and developer experience simultaneously, while also ensuring the data gathered for Metrics is clean and accurate. Visit Sleuth.io and request a demo to learn more.

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Product Description

Track and improve Accelerate metrics You can't improve what you don't measure. Sleuth lets you do both.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Track the right metrics.

Unlike other trackers that monitor individual Developers with dubious metrics (like lines of code or number of pull requests), Sleuth only tracks team-based metrics that studies have proven to impact performance: Accelerate / DORA metrics.

Track DORA metrics accurately.

Most trackers can't accurately track Deploy Frequency and Change Lead Time because they use git data to infer when deploys happen, nor can they measure Change Failure Rate or MTTR because they don't have data on the impact and health of deployed code. Sleuth integrates with your entire toolchain to track your cycle time, from issue tickets to production deploys and rollbacks.

A tracker Developers want to use.

Sleuth tracks Accelerate metrics by way of tracking deploys. This approach allows Developers to use Sleuth to understand what's shipped, shipping, and needs fixing, automate manual deployment steps, and ultimately make shipping code less stressful.


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Sleuth
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2019
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@sleuth_io
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Description

Sleuth is a software vendor specializing in development and operations tools designed to enhance team collaboration and streamline workflows. Their platform focuses on providing insights into software delivery processes, enabling organizations to track and improve their engineering metrics. By integrating with existing tools, Sleuth helps teams gain visibility into their work, optimize performance, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. For more information, visit their website at https://www.sleuth.io.


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5.0 out of 5
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Sleuth does DORA better than any platform I have seen. There are other platforms with broader functionality, but Sleuth keeps their focus narrow a...
Carlos R.
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Carlos R.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Very useful as a consistent way to measure the DORA metrics"
Sleuth is very easy to set up and to understand. The different views (project, team, or org level) allow to present the information in a way that c...
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Nikolai M.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
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"Creates visibility to teams about their performance metrics and helps to automate some routine"
- Ability to see metrics like Frequency, Leadtime, Failture Rate and MTTR by teams and by projects - Lead time breakdown helps to identify specifi...
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Sleuth Demo - DORA Metrics (1/4): Change Lead Time
Sleuth uses source control integrations (Github, Bitbucket, Gitlab, etc) and deployment tracking to build a complete and accurate picture of your team's lead time, the time from first commit to deploy. We provide a detailed breakdown of how much your team, on average, is spending across devel...
Sleuth Demo - DORA Metrics (2/4): Deploy Frequency
Sleuth’s deployment tracking allows you to know exactly what's shipping and shipped, instead of inferring through pull request merges and the like. This makes accurate tracking of deploy frequency super easy. Sleuth also shows the batch size breakdown of each deploy. This allows you to quickly...
Sleuth Demo - DORA Metrics (3/4): Change Failure Rate
Sleuth knows when failure happens through integration with incident management and monitoring tools. What a team defines as change failure is very specific to the team. It can be as broad as a change causing a hard-down incident or as fine as a business metric deviating from its norm. Sl...
Sleuth Demo - DORA Metrics (4/4): MTTR
MTTR is defined in Sleuth as the time a project spends in a failure state. Sleuth tracks MTTR accurately through integrations with CI, incident, and monitoring tools. Sleuth also comes with alerting features that drives MTTD down to zero, helping to reduce MTTR.
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What do you like best about Sleuth?

If you've read Accelerate, you know the importance of DORA metrics. Sleuth makes tracking these metrics easy. Sleuth has integrations available for all the tools we use, so we never have to think about tracking. We just follow our normal devops workflow and check the dashboard to see how we're doing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sleuth?

Sleuth is a very specialized tool, designed mainly for tracking DORA metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use Sleuth to give us a reality check on how our migration into a devops workflow is going. It allows us to easily see our DORA metrics and make changes where necessary.

In addition, we use the integrations in Sleuth to guard releases. We can release to a pre-production environment and have Sleuth halt promotion to prod if there are any issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Juan Felipe M.
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Solutions architect
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Sleuth?

Setting it up is super easy and the automations add a lot of value that provide fast feedback to the dev teams when they are impacting their DORA metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sleuth?

The automation marketplace had a huge spike and then was abandoned. The MTTR and failure rate would be easier to measure if there was a better new relic integration in our case Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Measuring the DORA metrics isn't a easy task and Sleuth gave us insights day one - not just numbers, it gives "level" that give insights on how good those numbers are - so a CTO can check really fast how his dev cycle is doing but also a tech lead can have detailed info about his team performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Sleuth?

- Ability to see metrics like Frequency, Leadtime, Failture Rate and MTTR by teams and by projects

- Lead time breakdown helps to identify specific area where improvements are needed

- Automated reports to slack before daily highlights points to discuss (e.g. stale pull request)

- Goal setting helps teams to improve their processes (make PRs smaller, do PR review more often or split issues better)

- Overall configuration process is quite straight forward and simple

- Convenient roles and pricing models

- Automations Marketplace has a bunch of nice automations: validate PR title, commit message, commit size, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sleuth?

- Bitbucket support is not so advanced as for GitHub

- Sometimes navigation between teams and projects is a bit annoying Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our dev cycle was quite long and we were looking for a tool which helps us to identify the reasons behind that. After we adopted Sleuth in our development teams we identified several reasons:

- big portion if pull requests had gigantic or huge size

- review lag was several days

- review time was big as well

Based on this information we set goals in Sleuth, configured several automations and reminders and after a few months teams had next results:

- number of gigantic PRs reduced by 40%, for small and medium increase by 170%

- review time and review lag were reduced by 30-35%

- deployment frequency was increase by 150%

We also noticed overall improvement of quality of the code and pull requests in general. Activity in PR reviews increased as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Carlos R.
CR
Director of Engineering
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Sleuth?

Sleuth is very easy to set up and to understand. The different views (project, team, or org level) allow to present the information in a way that can be understood by different stakeholders.

It's been very helpful for me in measuring the Dora Metrics and encouraging the teams to take all actions necessary to make the metrics better (which in turn leads to better performance).

Also the customer support has always been very quick and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sleuth?

Sleuth struggles a bit to measure some of the DORA metrics in a trunk based development setup and the fact that there's no automated way to import all repositories in gitlab sometimes makes it harder to ensure that all repositories are accounted for in the metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

A way to indirectly measure if teams are being effective or not. It also provides tips and tricks on where teams should focus to become better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Sleuth?

Sleuth does DORA better than any platform I have seen. There are other platforms with broader functionality, but Sleuth keeps their focus narrow and excels there. Once up and running, the platform is really straight-forward to extract isights from. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sleuth?

For companies not making use of the "easier" dev tools and patterns, onboarding could probably be made a bit faster with a library of common implementation approaches. Obviously there are things like code snippets to emit the right kind of events, but I mean more in terms of showing a range of common development and deployment patterns to shortcut teams toward understanding how to adapt to their own workflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Sleuth is our best source of velocity data. It tells us how teams are performing, and how that performance moves over time as we introduce tooling, process, or organisational changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RS
Engineering Manager
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Sleuth?

Nice looking dashboard with lots of features including workflow automations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sleuth?

Could use more MS Teams workflows/notifications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Observability and Monitoring: Sleuth helps track and visualize the impact of new features or changes in real-time. You can get a clear picture of how different parts of the system are performing, which helps you ensure stability and quickly address issues before they grow.

Metrics and Reporting: As an Engineering Manager, you need to report on team performance and project progress. Sleuth can generate metrics about deployment frequency, stability, and other key performance indicators that you can use for reporting to higher-ups or for your own internal assessments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sleuth?

Easy of Use and Customer Support is great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sleuth?

Limited number of Contributors. Doesn't support custom work item types from DevOps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Team's performance metrics, really valuable break down view to see what delivery phase need improvements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matthew P.
MP
Chief Technology Officer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Sleuth?

Sleuth is very straightforward to get started Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sleuth?

Toughest problem we had was managing impacts (determining how and when to indicate a failure in a deployment) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Sleuth tells us exactly what tickets/features have gone to which environments and when. It also gave us a very quick way to get started with tracking our DORA stats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rishu T.
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Associate Manager Strategy
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sleuth?

Its very easy/convinient to use & the options to integrate it with other applications & options to visualize it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sleuth?

The license is a bit costly to use the premium feature of the app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It gives many insights into the deployments and also the team metrics. It lets us track the deployments and product health over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joshua H.
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Technical Product Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sleuth?

Sleuth has a deep understanding of DORA metrics and provides the critical integrations you need to get these metrics setup as fast as possible. The app is fast, even as we've added more and more projects. Even better is the team behind the product, who understand DORA metrics and the deeper deployment-related metrics Sleuth provides. After every conversation we have with a Sleuth team member I feel like we come away smarter from it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sleuth?

The product is still rapidly evolving. Some features are in "beta" and change quite often. This is tough when the features are desired by users and they have to adapt to so much time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We wanted DORA metrics to help us understand the health of our engineering organization and the impact changes to our internal developer platform might have on those metrics. We now have these metrics and can have better, data-driven conversations that were impossible to have before without a lot of manual data gathering and manipulation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.