DEVOPSdigest

Bitrise announced the launch of Bitrise Insights, a new tool that automatically surfaces insights into the performance of critical processes and workflow bottlenecks that disproportionately influence companies’ delivery of mobile apps to app stores.

Now, rather than depending on resource-intensive, manual data analysis and troubleshooting, Bitrise Insights will monitor build times, failure rates and duration, as well as testing data, and proactively alert mobile app developers to any issues that are negatively impacting app delivery.

Bitrise is now equipping companies with previously hard-to-reach insights into the exact Mobile DevOps processes that are critical to releasing apps frequently. Often, companies are able to identify when their mobile projects are running behind, but do not have full visibility into the individual builds and tests that are underperforming—or failing altogether. Without constant monitoring for these issues, technical bugs that slow down app development can even go unnoticed altogether.

- See the big picture and surface mission-critical details: From a single, customizable screen, Bitrise Insights gives companies a 360-view of their entire Mobile DevOps activities. From there, Bitrise surfaces key performance stats for the tasks that directly influence app release frequency, including: Build times, build and test failure rates, total duration of builds and tests, build count, and credit spend.

- Understand the trends and their root cause: Proactive alerts are triggered when Mobile DevOps activities begin trending in a positive or negative direction. For any processes that are identified as trending downwards, companies can drill into granular performance data to reveal the root cause behind the issue. This means one less step for developers when finding a solution for problematic workflows.

- Detect the highest-value workflow priorities and performance bottlenecks: Bitrise’s ‘Bottlenecks’ feature ranks companies’ slowest and most inefficient processes in order of priority, showing teams where to put their immediate focus to have the biggest impact on app delivery. For example, Bitrise may identify one workflow as taking two minutes longer than average to build, but that workflow only includes a few builds. If another workflow shows just a one-minute increase in build time, but has tens or hundreds of builds within it, Bitrise will determine that it has a more troublesome impact, and list it higher in Bottlenecks.

“Companies are looking at all of their operations under a microscope to determine where inefficiencies lie,” said Barnabas Birmacher, CEO at Bitrise. “Our goal with Bitrise Insights is not only to automate the process of monitoring these operations, but pinpoint exactly where companies can optimize their time, talent and budget to get mobile experiences to consumers faster.”

Bitrise’s platform gives mobile teams their own unique tools to navigate app development challenges that don’t exist in traditional DevOps environments. With Bitrise Insights, Bitrise is now bringing an approach to improving developer productivity that’s become known in traditional DevOps environments as ‘Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE)’, to the mobile space. By automating the time-consuming and labor-intensive process of searching for DevOps issues and identifying their root cause, engineers can instead turn their focus to innovation and improving the user experience of their apps.