Changelog
What's new in DevStats.
Product updates, new features, and improvements.
Free Benchmark Plan, Guided Onboarding & New Squad Creation Flow
One of our biggest months to date — DevStats gets a free forever plan and a guided onboarding that takes any team from zero to their first benchmark.
- Free Benchmark plan — a free forever tier with your team's benchmark report; expired trials now land here instead of losing access
- Guided onboarding — connect and authorize your tools step by step via OAuth, personal access token, or fine-grained token, select repositories and projects, and run your first benchmark — across GitHub, GitLab, GitLab Self-Managed, Bitbucket, Bitbucket Data Center, Azure Repos, Azure Boards, Jira Cloud, Jira Data Center, Linear, ClickUp, and GitHub Projects
- Add Integration screen — a dedicated flow to connect a new tool from anywhere in the app
- New squad creation flow — create a squad with its repositories and projects in a single drawer, including import more flows for both
- Settings for the Benchmark plan — access management, timezone, security, deploys, incidents, git rules, issue tracker rules, merge players, innovation investment, repositories, and projects
AI Initiative Forecasting, Platform-Wide Speed & Security Hardening
Initiative delivery forecasting rebuilt around AI, every major report made significantly faster, and a full round of security hardening across the platform.
- AI initiative forecasting — predict when an initiative will actually land, with a predicted finish vs. target chart, epic linking, background processing, run logs, and unified on-track / off-track status
- Faster reports across the platform — Throughput, Sprints, Daily WIP, Deploy, Productivity, Activity Heatmap, Work Breakdown, Investment Profile, Engineering Investment, Collaboration, Code Review, Issue Cycle Time, PR Cycle Time, and Deployment Frequency all load significantly faster
- Security hardening — a full round of security fixes and dependency upgrades across the platform
- Datadog improvements — new regions (AP2, US1-FED, US2-FED), webhook idempotency, squad-to-team mapping, a "Connected to Datadog" badge, and orphaned incident cleanup
- MCP tools — Change Failure Rate added to the DORA Metrics tool, plus fixes to Investment Profile, Throughput, and date range handling
AI Reports, Notification Channels, Datadog Integration & PR Rollback Detection
DevStats stops being a place you visit and starts delivering insights where your team already works — AI-generated reports scheduled and sent to Slack, Teams, Discord, and email.
- AI Reports — schedule AI-generated engineering reports daily, weekly, or monthly, with custom prompt templates, test runs, and full run history
- Notification channels — connect Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, and email via OAuth, pick which channels receive each report, and disconnect at any time
- Datadog integration — pull incidents from Datadog with a guided setup wizard, service and team mapping, and scheduled sync
- PR rollback detection — revert pull requests are now automatically flagged as incidents across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure Repos, feeding Change Failure Rate and Mean Time to Recovery
- AI Credits — usage card, plan cards, purchase history, and cost tracking for AI Chat
incident.io Integration & Engineering Investment AI Agent
DevStats launches the incident.io integration end-to-end and ships a dedicated AI agent that classifies Engineering Investment automatically.
- incident.io integration — connect incident.io to pull incident data straight into DevStats, with squad association, workspace scoping, and incidents flowing into your existing reports
- Engineering Investment AI Agent — a dedicated AI agent that automatically classifies engineering work into investment categories, with an AI-mode toggle on the Engineering Investment report
- MCP tools expansion — new Branch List tool, history on the Issue List tool, and stronger guardrails so the assistant won't hallucinate when a metric or tool isn't available
- AI Chat polish — refreshed chat UI, better prompts, clarification follow-ups, and fixes to chat history
- Linear — refresh token auth — Linear integration migrated to refresh tokens for more reliable long-lived connections
AI Chat, Windsurf Integration, Code Quality Webhooks & Integration Setup Overhaul
A landmark month for AI-native workflows and integration reliability — DevStats ships its built-in AI assistant, expands AI coding integrations, moves SonarQube to real-time webhooks, and redesigns integration setup from the ground up.
- AI Chat V1 — a floating AI chat built into the platform; ask questions about your engineering data, navigate reports, and get insights using natural language
- Windsurf integration — connect Windsurf to track AI-assisted coding activity at the squad level alongside GitHub Copilot and Claude Code
- MCP enhancements — squad-scoped access, custom MCP client support, new PR List and Issue List tools, and tool usage tracking
- SonarQube webhooks — SonarQube now pushes metric updates to DevStats in real time via webhooks, replacing the polling approach
- Incident management improvements — severity levels, root cause tracking, search by incident name, unified sidebar form, and a refreshed incidents API
- Integration setup overhaul — connecting a new integration now syncs repositories in the background with a live progress indicator, across GitHub, GitLab, GitLab SM, Bitbucket, Bitbucket DC, Azure Repos, Azure Boards, Jira Cloud, Jira DC, Linear, and ClickUp
- Repositories overhaul — new Pending Review tab to approve newly discovered repositories, an Ignored tab, and a banner prompting action when new repos are detected
- Workboard integration — send DevStats metrics to Workboard automatically on a schedule, with multi-metric support
- Player page — commits and comments count now visible on the player profile
MCP Server, SonarQube Integration, Multiple GitHub Tokens & Benchmark Drill-Downs
DevStats launches its MCP server for AI-native engineering analytics, adds SonarQube code quality tracking, expands GitHub token flexibility, and introduces drill-down charts across every benchmark metric.
- MCP server — connect DevStats directly to AI clients like Claude, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot; query your engineering metrics, drill into PRs and issues, and generate reports using natural language. No UI required.
- SonarQube integration — connect your SonarQube projects to surface code quality metrics alongside your engineering delivery data
- Multiple GitHub tokens — add multiple fine-grained or classic tokens per GitHub integration and get a single unified repository list across all credentials
- Benchmark drill-downs — every benchmark metric now has its own interactive drill-down chart: PR Cycle Time, Issue Cycle Time, Planning Accuracy, Change Failure Rate, Code Review Size, and Deployment Frequency
Multi-Squad Filtering, PR Cycle Time Overhaul & Interactive Live Demo
This is one of our biggest platform-wide improvements to date — touching every report in the platform and fundamentally changing how engineering leaders slice their data.
- Multi-squad filtering across 20+ reports — select any combination of squads and instantly see aggregated or comparative data across DORA Metrics, Sprints, Speed, Productivity, Collaboration, Benchmarks, and more
- PR Cycle Time overhaul — paginated tables that handle thousands of pull requests, full-text search, and sortable PR size column
- Sprint Progress filters — filter by individual projects or sprints to zero in on exactly the work that matters
- Settings V3 with bulk actions — configure Deploy and Incident settings across all repositories simultaneously
- Interactive live demo — explore the full platform with realistic sample data, no signup required
Claude Code Integration, Two-Factor Authentication & Contribution Drill Downs
DevStats expands its AI analytics suite and takes a major step forward on security — while giving engineering managers deeper visibility into team contributions.
- Claude Code integration — track AI-assisted coding metrics from Anthropic's Claude alongside GitHub Copilot, with adoption rates, productivity impact, and code quality breakdowns per squad
- Two-factor authentication — secure every account via authenticator app or email verification, with recovery codes and trusted device support built in
- 2FA setup prompt for teams — workspace admins can prompt all users to enable 2FA for organization-wide compliance
- PRs Merged drill down — squad-level tables, trend charts, and sample data for pull request throughput
- Issues Resolved drill down — interactive breakdown of issue completion across squads
- Days With Commits drill down — see coding consistency patterns at the squad and individual level
- Innovation Investment drill down — measure how much time squads invest in new features vs. maintenance
Customizable Chart Types, Enterprise Security Controls & Open PRs Report
A major update across visualization, security, and pull request management — giving engineering leaders more control over how they see, secure, and act on their data.
- Chart type selection across 15+ reports — choose between bar, line, and area charts on Daily WIP, Sprints, Allocation, DORA Metrics, Speed, Productivity, Code Review, AI Usage, and more
- Enterprise session management — configure session durations, enforce password resets, and enable automatic logout when users close their browser
- User Security Settings page — centralized security configuration for workspace administrators
- GitHub Copilot metrics per squad — see which teams are adopting AI tools fastest and measure per-squad productivity impact
- Open PRs report — real-time view of every open pull request with configurable aging thresholds, streak tracking, and a live sync progress bar
Platform Performance & Integration Reliability
Focused on the foundation that makes DevStats fast and reliable at scale — faster page loads, smarter data pipelines, and hardened integrations across every provider.
- Faster Players page — significant performance improvements to the team member dashboard, including optimized table rendering and card loading
- Lazy-loaded repositories — instant page renders with repositories loading progressively in the background
- Optimized metric cards — PRs Merged, Issues Resolved, Commits, and Pull Requests Opened cards now load up to 3x faster
- Re-sync engine rebuilt — improved reliability across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos, Jira Cloud, ClickUp, and Linear with fewer sync failures and faster recovery