Swarmia Pros and Cons

I really appreciate how easy it is to set up and use Swarmia, especially for a team of 10-12 engineers like mine. The UI is intuitive and provides just the right amount of information without overwhelming me with too many details. I also love that it's nicely integrated with Slack, which makes it easy to keep an eye on our team's productivity and experience. Additionally, I'm excited to use Swarmia for monthly engineering surveys, as it will help us identify areas where we can improve and make data-driven decisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While I overall enjoy using Swarmia, there are a few things that could be improved. Firstly, I wish it had more filtering options to allow me to get more nuanced data insights. This would enable me to drill down into specific areas of our team's productivity and experience. Secondly, while the free plan is great for teams up to 14 developers, it gets expensive quickly when you cross that threshold. As a smaller team, this could be a barrier to adoption. Finally, I'd love to see more reporting functionality built into Swarmia, as this would enable us to easily share insights with stakeholders and make data-driven decisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Swarmia was the easiest of the tools

I trialed for tracking DORA and other engineering metrics. It also has the most appealing UI making the information meaningful and easy to digest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Price is high. Can quickly become cost prohibitive for small teams needing advanced features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to view DORA metrics without much extra work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When there are inconsistencies in metrics it can be difficult to figure out what exactly caused the issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's so simple to use and it was so easy to setup. The UI is intuitive and there's help/explanations on reports so you can understand what the data means. They are also continuosly adding features which has been amazing!

I use it weekly to monitor my teams progress and I have my managers using it to help improve the way we work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Honestly none. I've used most of the competing products and this is by far the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's very easy to use and syncs with Slack and Github nicely. It sends relevant notifications and makes managing of pull requests easy. I've not needed to contact the customer support, but they do provide introduction sessions to teams to showcase how best to leverage the platforms different features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To get everything out of the tool one needs to dive into the different features as there is quite a lot it can do. It's not hard, just make sure to really look into everything it really offers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple to use and give you a great overview of your engineering teams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can't list a downside at the moment, I have been having a great experience so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've been using Swarmia for a few months now on a weekly basis, and it has truly transformed the way my team and I manage our KPIs and leverage data. Swarmia offers a fantastic product that integrates seamlessly into our workflow and you can easily implement your reports on it, providing real-time insights and actionable metrics that have been instrumental in driving our performance.

One of the standout features of Swarmia is its ability to present complex data in a user-friendly format. This has allowed us to easily track our progress, identify bottlenecks, and make data-driven decisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing so far, there support is very helpful. I highly recommend Swarmia to any team looking to elevate their performance and achieve better outcomes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The setup is very simple -- it integrates well with Github and configuration is very straightforward. New features like initiative tracking are also really nice, though I'd like to see some UX improvements and deeper Jira integration (it would be nice to have bi-directional syncing). I also really appreciate the full-featured free tier for small startups (like mine). The cost structure makes sense and we'd be willing to pay as we reach a larger scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product occassionally returns stale results. In addition, there is a lot of jira bookkeeping I need to do to make sure that work is categorized appropriately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Swarmia is combining information from your backlog tooling and your code repository. I our case it's Jira in combination with GitHub.

In Swarmia you can get more insight in the progress made by the team during the sprint without any additional handlings by the developers and you can identify possible blockers earlier.

When you only use Jira, then you can only see a status and pick up signals from your developers during the daily scrum ceremony. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The risk of a tool like Swarmia is that management puts KPIs on figures where I see more value in using the figures to detect potentional issues and start the conversation with your team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The "Work log" and "Pulls requests" parts are very useful and contains a lot a of details

My team an I use a lot the swarmia slackbot to be informed about the PR status Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some filters like the possibility to choose between weekly, bi-weekly, monthly for example in work log part.

The pull requests analysis are not so easy to deal with, and for "time to first review" I want to have the possibility to exclude a reviewer (cause we use a bot to do a first review and that distorts the stats) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.