Faros vs. DX
Enterprise engineering teams choose Faros because it’s a stronger large-scale data platform for developer productivity.
5 reasons enterprises choose Faros over DX
Facts over feelings
"When research shows people misjudge their own productivity by 30 percentile points and overestimate how much AI actually helps them, I can't make resourcing decisions based on how engineers feel. I need to see what the system data actually tells us is happening within our own workflows, and that's where DX falls short."
Faros leads with objective metrics and layers in developer sentiment as a secondary lens. DX centers on surveys and is vulnerable to multiple biases and distortion.
Actionable
"What we struggle with DX is the 'so what.' It has metrics, which are great for monitoring and benchmarking ourselves, but they do not inherently help us fix any inefficiencies or performance issues. We want a solution to prescriptively guide us on how to improve our performance."
Faros delivers highlights, lowlights, and improvement recommendations to your inbox. DX nurtures leaders but leaves directors and managers wondering what to do next.
Trustworthy
"With DX you have to manually maintain team structures and tailor dashboards for each team, which is really frustrating. And if a developer moves from Team A to Team B, Team B 'inherits' that developer’s metrics from when they were still part of Team A, which completely distorts the historical data.”
Faros keeps your org charts fresh and correctly attributes data to the right team, even when ICs move around. DX creates significant data distortions that prevent accurate impact assessments and erode engineers’ trust.
Enterprise-ready
"We replaced DX because they couldn't support our unique deployment tools and processes and give us the fine-grained event data we needed from PRs, commits, and deployments. DX falls back on self-reported surveys for anything they don't support well."
Faros has 2x connectors, better support for non-standard deployment flows, and seamless integration for bespoke developer tools and on-prem systems. Our best-in-class support team goes the extra mile to bring your data to life.
Customizable
"Instead of spending half my day writing complex SQL in DX to join data from GitHub, Jira, and a dozen other tools—and praying I got the logic right—everything in Faros is already connected and the key metrics are pre-calculated. I just ask the question I actually care about."
The Faros experience can be tailored to your context, goals, and priorities. Creating custom metrics is easy with prebuilt components and base metrics, compared to DX’s raw and confusing SQL.
In the past year, Faros won 92% of head-to-head enterprise POCs. Here’s why.
Developer Productivity Frameworks
Standard frameworks (DORA, SPACE, DevEx)
Proprietary frameworks & benchmarks
Tool telemetry & developer surveys
Actionability and Recommendations
AI chart summarization
Automated notifications and alerts
Problem diagnosis & fix guidance
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Causal analysis over correlation
Enterprise Implementation
Rapid POC and onboarding
Complete tool ecosystem coverage
Non-standard deployments support
Affordable SaaS and on-prem integrations
Forward Deployed Engineers for your success
Executive Business Reviews
Data Fidelity and Trustworthiness
Maintains accurate org charts
Correct attribution across team changes
Prevents historical data distortion
Bias reduction techniques
Customizability
Custom metrics and dashboards
Custom use cases
Query UI for easy metric configuration
Natural language query builder
Pre-aggregated joins & computed fields
Raw SQL on disconnected tables
Data export to 3rd party tools
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