@pagerduty/backstage-plugin

PagerDuty Backstage Plugin

The PagerDuty plugin reduces the cognitive load on developers responsible for maintaining services in production. Instead of having to go to PagerDuty's console, you can now access the necessary information directly within Backstage. This includes finding active incidents or opening a new incident, reviewing recent changes made to the service, and checking who is on-call.

New Frontend System (NFS)

This frontend plugin is starting the adoption of the New Frontend System. This allow us to be present in Portal and keep up to date with Backstage's recommended best practices.

Migration

We're still migrating to the NFS, since it is still in alpha. You can find this version of the plugin on the export @pagerduty/backstage-plugin/alpha, which allows you to start using it even in Backstage under the new createApp helper from @backstage/frontend-defaults.

Extensions

The NFS allows for extendable plugins, which means there are parts of it that users can replace to elevate their experience. We've historically exported two components the EntityPagerDutyCard and the EntityPagerDutySmallCard to expose some PagerDuty's service information on your Backstage entities. In the NFS, we default to EntityPagerDutyCard as an entity card extension, which means you can still make use of the EntityPagerDutySmallCard through overrides.

import PagerDutyPlugin from '@pagerduty/backstage-plugin/alpha';
import { EntityPagerDutySmallCard } from '@pagerduty/backstage-plugin';

const OverriddenPagerDutyPlugin = PagerDutyPlugin.withOverrides({
  extensions: [
    PagerDutyPlugin.getExtension('entity-card:pagerduty/EntityPagerDutyCard').override({
      factory: originalFactory => 
        originalFactory({
          params: {
            loader: async () => Promise.resolve(<EntityPagerDutySmallCard />)
          }
        })
    })
  ]
})