Compass is a Service Catalog offering by Atlassian — the parent company behind products like JIRA, OpsGenie & Confluence. The product is an inspired by their internal portal that’s used across Atlassian teams. The tool does not call itself a Service Catalog or Internal Developer portal but a Developer Experience Platform.
1. Atlassian Compass moved out of beta into general availability on October 17, 2023. Given it’s freshness, it’s scorecard is still maturing and does not have complex actions or checks that are significantly few. (especially w.r.t integrations with Code Analysis & Security tools). Read more about a user checking in the Compass Community about features that it couldn’t find in the tool yet.
2. No native scaffolding or self-serve actions: In case you want to extend your Service Catalog into a Internal Developer Portal, Compass does not offer features for it yet. Given their positioning as DevEx platform and not internal developer portal, it is not clear if it’s a part of their future roadmap either.
3. Monorepo — Compass does not have out of the box compatibility with Monorepo and requires custom metrics to be instrumented to track it.
4. Self-hosted instance not available.
1. Deep integrations within Atlassian ecosystem — in case you are already using Forge or BitBucket, it might be added value for your team to automate related workflows.
2. Cost effective offering compared to other alternatives in the market.
3. If you’re using Atlassian already, getting started with another of their service could be relatively easier than onboarding a new vendor.
(Perfect for making buy/build decisions or internal reviews.)
