Sleuth

San Francisco, CA, USA
2019
  |  By Don Brown
Don: The debate is over - how should you structure your software teams? That question is now answered in this year's State of DevOps report 2023. Other questions answered include: How does AI affect my company and team performance? How can we quantify the impact of culture on performance burnout? What even is culture in the first place? All these things are included in the State of DevOps report 2023. We have a very special guest, Eric Maxwell from the DORA group, to offer his takes on the report.
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Every team has a workflow, even if it’s chaotic or lacks consistency. It’s a no-brainer, though, that in the fast-paced world of software development, a clear and well-defined path to guide your work is essential to move efficiently. Workflows provide just that — the structure and framework that developers need to streamline their processes, collaborate effectively, and optimize productivity.
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If you want to make software engineering easy to improve, then automate actions in your development process. These simple yet high-impact “if this, then that” conditions pack a punch toward reducing toil and cognitive load. Your developers choose what’s important to improve and reap the benefits of an efficient and optimized development environment.
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Smart notifications and nudges are table stakes tools for developers looking to streamline their work and stay focused on building improvements. These automatic alerts are key to a more efficient workflow, freeing us from the burden of repetitive, overwhelming, and time critical tasks — aka, toil.
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Every team has guardrails, whether you recognize them or not. They’re a form of automation that can have significant impact on your software development process and the people doing the work. They’re another way to give toil the boot and keep developers in the flow. We’ve made the case for engineering automation in a previous article; here’s how guardrails as automations ensure that agreed upon boundaries and ways of working are codified into team processes.
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When you survey developers on how to improve engineering practices and their daily job experience, their answers invariably include getting rid of little annoying things - what's called toil. Toil is manual and repetitive tasks that waste your time. Toil is arguably worse than crisis, because a crisis is temporary and firefighting can feel rewarding when it's over. Toil is more like a death march - an insidious force that eventually leads to burnout.
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Sleuth's new Goals dashboard helps teams set, track, and achieve their goals. Here's how it works.
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We talk with numerous teams that want to improve their engineering performance. Here, we explain how to accelerate your progress using DORA metrics — a set of key performance indicators that can help you measure and optimize your team's software development process. You'll learn practical tips on how to leverage these metrics to achieve faster and more efficient team improvement. But first, you'll need your team to see the value in DORA metrics.
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We’ve all seen the news about tech layoffs. If you’re an engineering manager, are you having to squeeze more out of existing teams, because adding staff anytime soon is unlikely? Maybe you’re tempted to micromanage your developers, thinking that if you know every aspect of their work, it’ll boost productivity. But, that approach doesn’t feel right, and you know your devs would hate you for it. What’s an engineering manager to do?
  |  By Alexandre Couëdelo
If you're a DevOps team looking for ways to improve your performance, you've probably heard of the Accelerate and DORA metrics. Tracking your performance with these metrics is a challenge, requiring good tooling. You might be tempted to build your own tracking solution, but you don’t need to! Due to the growing popularity of DORA metrics, several tracker tools are available on the market. But how do you choose the best DORA metrics tracker for you? This handy comparison guide will help!
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Does trunk-based development cause burnout? This and other surprises are revealed in the State of DevOps Report for 2023.
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Robots, AI or otherwise, that's clearly the answer. In this tech talk at QCon 2023, Dylan explains what is engineering toil and how to use robots, er, automations to ease the pain.
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Even the biggest Jira fans don't like babysitting it. Watch the full video to automatically keep Jira up to date with deployments. Give Sleuth a try and see how we give teams actionable insights on how to improve with no-code automations to instantly ship improvements, and metrics to measure their impact — all in a way that both managers and developers love.
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Who loves updating Jira state? Yeah, us neither, which is why we built an automation that takes care of all that. This video shows how to install the automation and use it to keep Jira up to date without all the babysitting.
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Automate shipping code through Slack, or better yet, skip the manual steps altogether! This preview gives you a taste of what Slack approvals looks like and why you'd want to do it with Sleuth. Give Sleuth a try and see how we give teams actionable insights on how to improve with no-code automations to instantly ship improvements, and metrics to measure their impact — all in a way that both managers and developers love.
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Automate shipping code through Slack, or better yet, skip the manual steps altogether! This video covers three steps to use Sleuth to automate code deployments using Slack. A bonus tip shows how to use Sleuth to automate the promotion of builds from staging to production, but in a safe manner with automatic health checks. Give Sleuth a try and see how we give teams actionable insights on how to improve with no-code automations to instantly ship improvements, and metrics to measure their impact — all in a way that both managers and developers love.
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Pull requests are 99% waiting, and therefore waste, so in this video, you learn how to use Sleuth automations to minimize waiting and get back to doing real work. Give Sleuth a try and see how we give teams actionable insights on how to improve with no-code automations to instantly ship improvements, and metrics to measure their impact — all in a way that both managers and developers love.
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Pull requests are 99% waiting, and therefore waste, so in this video, you learn how to use Sleuth automations to minimize waiting and get back to doing real work. Give Sleuth a try and see how we give teams actionable insights on how to improve with no-code automations to instantly ship improvements, and metrics to measure their impact — all in a way that both managers and developers love.
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Stop committing code without automatically scanning for secrets. This tip walks you through git leaks, a useful little utility in every dev's toolbelt. Give Sleuth a try and see how we give teams actionable insights on how to improve with no-code automations to instantly ship improvements, and metrics to measure their impact — all in a way that both managers and developers love.
  |  By Sleuth
Make your software development process smooth & hassle-free! Discover how to automate pull request checks with Sleuth, ensuring PR standards without being a pull request police. Get coding! Give Sleuth a try and see how we give teams actionable insights on how to improve with no-code automations to instantly ship improvements, and metrics to measure their impact — all in a way that both managers and developers love.

Deployment tracking, move fast without breaking things. When a deployment causes downtime, reduced performance, or customer facing bugs, Sleuth knows. Drawing from the best in class tools your engineering teams already use such as source control, APM, issue and error tracking. We equip your teams with the data needed to dramatically reduce downtime!

How Sleuth Deployment Tracking Works:

  • Detect: When a deployment causes downtime, reduced performance, or bugs, our impact detection engine knows. Quickly identify, resolve, and re-deploy.
  • Alert: Real-time Slack notifications fine-tuned to only the information you care about. Consolidate all your DevOps-related notifications into a single, powerful channel.
  • Command: Track releases from staging to production. Know what's deployed, and what's coming. Understand the impact, and fix shit when it goes wrong.
  • Control: Create order and eliminate release lag with PR-based workflows. Manage approvals, lock deployments, and ship with confidence.

Deploy Your Code With Confidence!