# Discover the power of the Faros platform

From visibility to control, Faros powers the productivity initiatives of the world's largest engineering organizations.

## What’s under the hood? Six powerful capabilities

Engineering organizations with thousands of developers and coding agents need these six foundational capabilities to maximize productivity in the age of AI.

### **Enterprise-Grade**  
Safely and securely analyze terabytes of engineering data in near real-time—at scale, with confidence.

### **Analytics**  
Turn data into context, and context into action. Analytics that connects the dots and provides the answers you need.

### **AI for Productivity**  
Transform and improve faster with purpose-built AI for engineering leaders and central developer productivity teams.

### **Interoperability**  
Faros works seamlessly with your entire toolchain—cloud or on-prem, off-the-shelf or custom.

### **Customization**  
The flexibility to measure what matters, automate what’s important, and see it all your way.

### **Catalogs**  
Faros turns scattered HR and service data into a single, navigable source of truth for engineering operations.

## Safely and securely serve terabytes of engineering context

### Deploy quickly

Set up in days, not months—even across complex environments.

### Scale seamlessly

Handle thousands of engineers and millions of data points with no degradation in performance.

### Maintain compliance

Operate with full confidence—compliant, reliable, and secure by design.

### Safeguard your data

Protect sensitive information with granular access control and secure deployment options.

## Key Enterprise Features

### Scalablilty

#### Large-scale data infrastructure

Data is fresh, feeds are monitored, and performance stays high—even for tens of thousands of engineers.

### Access

#### Customizable permissions

Control who sees what with robust RBAC. Sensitive info is redacted automatically based on role.

### Compliance

#### Compliance and trust

Easily support enterprise policies for authentication, access, and data handling.

### Security

#### Secure deployment modes

Deploy Faros your way—SaaS, hybrid, or on-prem—without compromising security or control.

## Analytics that baseline and benchmark

### Unify your engineering data, no pre-standardization necessary

### No disruption

Get the insights you need without forcing teams to standardize tools or workflows.

### See the full picture

We connect the dots—linking disjointed data into a unified, actionable view.

### Trust the numbers

Metrics are transparent and traceable, with clear definitions and data sources.

### Empower leaders

Deliver the right insights to the right people—when and where they need them.

## Key Analytics Features

### Schema

#### Unified data model

Bring all your data into one schema. Faros delivers developer productivity insights without imposing standardization or changing the way teams work.

### Mapping

#### Intelligent attribution

Map work to the right teams and services, with native support for your organization and product structures (and their frequent changes).

### Workflows

#### Process analytics

Track workflows like Lead Time and Resolution Time across tools, teams, and bespoke flows. Faros easily supports deviating processes across teams.

### Benchmarks

#### Benchmarks and heatmaps

Visualize performance across teams and metrics to spot gaps and drive focus. See how teams compare to industry benchmarks and internal targets.

## AI that guides and recommends

### Transform and improve faster with purpose-built AI for developer productivity

### Detect faster

Surface insights, trends, and patterns from your data quickly and easily.

### Solve smarter

Address the root cause of performance issues for guaranteed impact.

### Improve outcomes

Make the right decisions based on proven cause and effect.

### Transform workflows

Serve employees where they work and when they need it.

## Key AI Features

### Insights

#### AI summaries and guidance

See the takeaway first. Instead of scrolling through dashboards, let Faros distill the bottom line from all your quantitative and qualitative sources. Discover hidden patterns and areas for improvement.

### Causation

#### Root cause analysis

Understand not just what changed, but how to fix it. Faros shows which teams are above or below average—and explains why.

### Assistance

#### Expert chatbot

Explore your data and get answers on the spot with natural language chat—even in Slack, Teams, or your IDE.

### Code Analysis

#### Human vs. GenAI code analysis

Shape the future workforce with insights into AI’s impact on how we code and ship.

## Interoperability for complete context

### Integrate your entire toolchain—cloud or on-prem, off-the-shelf or custom

### Integrate everything

From vendor tools to homegrown scripts, Faros connects to your whole ecosystem.

### Stay in control

Push or pull data on your terms—with flexible options for every environment.

### Keep the flow

Our connectors are optimized to collect data without slowing down your systems.

### Centralize it all

No data left behind—Faros unifies everything, so you always have the full picture.

## Key Interoperability Features

### Continuity

#### High-performance connectors

Pull developer data efficiently without disrupting or overloading source systems like Jira or GitHub. Faros is built with performance and stability in mind.

### Security

#### Flexible ingestion options

Use our Cloud Connectors, Source CLI, or Events CLI to ingest data your way, at your pace.

### Control

#### Webhooks and control

Push only what you want, when you want—with full control via webhooks and APIs.

### Sources

#### Any-source compatibility

From commercial tools to homegrown systems, Faros integrates with everything you use.

## Customization To reflect how you build

### The flexibility to measure what matters, automate what’s important, and see it all your way

### Move at the speed of business

Create new metrics and dashboards as fast as priorities shift.

### Instant answers, not long lead times

Cut analysis time from days to minutes with intuitive custom views.

### Make every meeting data-driven

New questions come up? Get answers immediately instead of delaying the decision.

### Metrics that reflect your world

Ensure your data aligns with your structure, cadence, and rules.

## Key Customization Features

### Metrics

#### Custom metrics

Tailor prebuilt charts or create your own to reflect how your org works.

### Dashboards

#### Fully custom dashboards

Build views that match your cadences, priorities, and recurring ceremonies.

### Queries

#### Natural language assistant

Answer business questions quickly with AI-powered query and metric generation.

### Automations

#### Workflow builder

Automate what matters—reduce toil, promote best practices, enforce SLAs, and more. You can do it all, now that your data is connected.

## Catalogs for teams and services

### A single, navigable source of truth for engineering leaders

### One place to look

No more bouncing between tools—teams, people, and services are connected and searchable.

### Map ownership

Know who’s on point for every system, repo, and responsibility.

### Track service health

Know what’s up, what’s down, and measure maturity at a glance.

### Live org hierarchies

Update your team structure directly in Faros—without waiting on HR.

## Key Catalog Features

### Organization

#### Org chart management

Keep your organizational structure accurate and actionable—no ongoing HR sync required.

### Services

#### Service catalog

Track ownership, metadata, and maturity across systems and services.

### Teams

#### Team pages

See team health, responsibilities, and on-call info—all in one place.

### IDP

#### IDP integrations

Publish Faros AI metrics into an IDP or pull third-party data into Faros.
