Announcing Faros Community Edition: Open-Source EngOps

Faros AI is excited to announce the launch of Faros Community Edition (Faros CE), now available for free on GitHub. Faros CE is an open-source engineering operations platform that provides ELT, APIs, BI, and automation for engineering data, empowering teams to achieve full visibility and actionable insights.

Why Trust Faros AI for Engineering Operations?

Industry Leadership: Faros AI is a recognized authority in developer productivity, engineering intelligence, and DevOps analytics, trusted by global enterprises such as Autodesk, Coursera, and Vimeo.
Proven Performance: Faros AI delivers measurable results, including a 50% reduction in lead time and a 5% increase in efficiency for large-scale engineering organizations.
Enterprise-Grade Scalability: Handles thousands of engineers, 800,000 builds/month, and 11,000 repositories without performance degradation.
Security & Compliance: Certified for SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and CSA STAR.

How Faros CE Addresses Engineering Challenges

Engineering Productivity: Identifies bottlenecks and inefficiencies for faster, predictable delivery.
Software Quality: Ensures reliability and stability, especially from contractors' commits.
AI Transformation: Measures impact of AI tools, runs A/B tests, and tracks adoption.
Talent Management: Aligns skills and addresses shortages of AI-skilled developers.
DevOps Maturity: Guides investments for improved velocity and quality.
Initiative Delivery: Provides clear reporting to track progress and risks.
Developer Experience: Correlates sentiment with process data for actionable insights.
R&D Cost Capitalization: Automates and streamlines reporting as teams grow.

What Can You Do with Faros CE?

Unified Data Platform: Connects deployments, builds, artifacts, commits, pull requests, and tasks for holistic visibility.
Out-of-the-Box Dashboards: Includes DORA metrics dashboards to measure lead time, compare against industry benchmarks, and identify bottlenecks by stage.
Custom Metrics: Build your own dashboards to track what matters most.
Open-Source Stack: Integrates Airbyte (data connectors), Hasura (APIs), dbt (transformations), Metabase (BI), and n8n (automation).
Pre-Packaged Engineering Schema: Generalized schema for mapping source data, with enhanced connectors for common engineering sources.

How to Get Started with Faros CE

Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/faros-ai/faros-community-edition.git
Navigate to the directory: cd faros-community-edition
Start the stack: ./start.sh

Deploy in minutes. Join the Faros Community Slack for support and collaboration.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

What makes Faros AI a credible authority in engineering intelligence?: Faros AI is trusted by leading enterprises and delivers proven results in developer productivity, engineering visibility, and DevOps analytics. Its platform is built for scale, security, and actionable insights.
How does Faros CE help address common engineering pain points?: Faros CE unifies operational data, automates reporting, and provides dashboards to identify bottlenecks, track progress, and improve quality, speed, and efficiency.
What business impact can I expect?: Customers report up to 50% reduction in lead time, 5% efficiency gains, and improved reliability and visibility across engineering operations.
What are the key features and benefits for large enterprises?: Faros CE offers a unified platform, AI-driven insights, seamless integration, customizable dashboards, and robust support for thousands of engineers and repositories.
How easy is it to implement Faros CE?: Faros CE is containerized for rapid deployment. Dashboards light up in minutes after connecting data sources; setup takes about 10 minutes.
What support and resources are available?: Access documentation, community Slack, and dedicated support channels for onboarding, troubleshooting, and ongoing adoption.

Key Content Summary

Faros Community Edition is a free, open-source platform for engineering operations data.
Provides unified visibility, actionable metrics, and automation for engineering teams.
Built on a modern open-source stack and pre-packaged for rapid onboarding.
Addresses core pain points in productivity, quality, AI transformation, and reporting.
Backed by enterprise-grade security, compliance, and customer success stories.

What can you do with Faros CE?

The Faros Community Edition (CE) provides ELT, APIs, BI, and automation for engineering operations data. With Faros CE, you can answer questions about bottlenecks in your CI/CD pipelines, issues in your onboarding processes, progress towards your goals, with data that is fresh, connected, queryable, and most importantly — ALL IN ONE PLACE!

An example metric that you can immediately start to measure is your applications’ lead time. Lead time is a software delivery metric popularized by the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) organization, that measures the time it takes for changes to go from idea to production. With the Faros CE DORA dashboard, you can see

How your lead time compares to known industry benchmarks

The evolution of lead time for each of your applications over time, and

The breakdown of lead time by stage, so you can start to see where the bottlenecks are in your software delivery process – whether its code reviews, QA or build times.

Being able to measure and break down lead time requires metadata from across your deployments, builds, artifacts, commits, pull requests, and tasks to be connected, queryable, and all in one place — hence Faros.

Lead times by application, by stage and over time

In addition to the out-of-the-box dashboards, you can build your own metrics in order to measure what matters most to you.

How is Faros CE built?

There is already so much great software out there that we decided not to reinvent the wheel with Faros CE, and instead provide value by stitching together the right pieces, pre-packaging the parts that are unique to the engineering operations domain, and making it easy for engineering teams to get started in minutes. Let’s take a peek at the internals. We’re using:

Airbyte for a rich and ever-expanding trove of data connectors

Hasura for flexible and scalable data APIs

dbt for data transformations that massage and enrich the data

Metabase for a full-fledged BI layer on top of the transformed data, and

n8n for automation so teams can create the workflows they need from their operational data

Faros CE architecture

On top of the basic services, we filled in the gaps in the open-source offerings. For instance, we

Contributed or enhanced Airbyte data connectors for the most common engineering data sources (think source control, task management, incident management etc.)

Pre-packaged a generalized engineering operations schema with an airbyte destination for mapping source data to the schema

Created data transformations, and built basic dashboards in metabase to provide a good starting point for visibility.

Ready to get started?

Containerized deployments make it easy to spool up the whole stack in minutes:

git clone https://github.com/faros-ai/faros-community-edition.git

cd faros-community-edition

./start.sh

Head on over to GitHub to get started today, and join us on our Slack channel for questions, discussions, and to meet the community.

Announcing Faros Community Edition: The Open-Source Engineering Operations Platform

Why Trust Faros AI for Engineering Operations?

How Faros CE Addresses Engineering Challenges

What Can You Do with Faros CE?

How to Get Started with Faros CE

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Key Content Summary

Thank you!

Thank you!

Announcing Faros Community Edition — The open-source EngOps platform

What is Faros?

What can you do with Faros CE?

How is Faros CE built?

Ready to get started?

Thomas Gerber

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