Existing Backstage Plugins

  1. Catalog:

    • Used for managing services and microservices, including registration, visualization, and the ability to track dependencies and relationships between services. It serves as a central directory for all services in an organization.

  2. Docs:

    • Designed for creating and managing documentation, supporting formats such as Markdown. It helps teams organize and access technical and non-technical documentation in a unified interface.

  3. API Docs:

    • Automatically generates API documentation based on OpenAPI specifications or other API definitions, ensuring that your API information is always up to date and accessible for developers.

  4. TechDocs:

    • A tool for creating and publishing technical documentation. It is integrated directly into Backstage, allowing developers to host and maintain documentation alongside their projects.

  5. Scaffolder:

    • Allows the rapid creation of new projects based on predefined templates, making it easier to deploy services or infrastructure with consistent best practices.

  6. CI/CD:

    • Provides integration with CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions and Jenkins, allowing developers to view build status, logs, and pipelines directly in Backstage.

  7. Metrics:

    • Offers the ability to monitor and visualize performance metrics for applications, helping teams to keep track of key indicators like response times and error rates.

  8. Snyk:

    • Used for dependency security analysis, scanning your codebase for vulnerabilities and helping to manage any potential security risks in third-party libraries.

  9. SonarQube:

    • Integrates with SonarQube to analyze code quality, providing insights into code health, including issues like technical debt, bugs, and security vulnerabilities.

  10. GitHub:

  • Enables integration with GitHub repositories, displaying information such as commits, pull requests, and other repository activity, making collaboration more transparent and efficient.
  1. CircleCI:
  • Allows seamless integration with CircleCI for managing CI/CD workflows, giving developers insight into build pipelines, test results, and deployment statuses.
  1. Kubernetes:
  • Provides tools to manage Kubernetes clusters, including visualizing pod status, logs, and cluster health, helping teams maintain and troubleshoot their cloud-native applications.
  1. Cloud:
  • Includes plugins for integration with cloud providers like AWS and Azure, allowing teams to manage cloud infrastructure, services, and billing directly from Backstage.
  1. OpenTelemetry:
  • Helps with monitoring distributed applications by integrating OpenTelemetry, offering powerful tools to trace requests, detect performance bottlenecks, and ensure application health.
  1. Lighthouse:
  • Integrates Google Lighthouse to analyze web application performance, helping teams identify areas for improvement in metrics like load times, accessibility, and SEO.