how we fit together

Wystan + Swarmia

Swarmia tracks how your team works — DORA, SPACE, cycle time. Wystan tracks what your team works on — named features, user flows, maintenance evidence and runtime observations. Combine them and “why is cycle time up?”has a real answer . Use both, or Wystan alone for the code side.

What Swarmia does best

The engineering-leader tool of choice. DORA, SPACE, and flow metrics with surveys, investment-area breakdowns, and GitHub/Jira/Slack integration. EM and VP Eng audiences trust Swarmia for executive reporting.

DORA + SPACE + flow metrics
Sprint cadence + cycle-time dashboards
Investment-area breakdowns + surveys
GitHub / Jira / Slack integration
Built for EM / VP Eng executive reporting

What Wystan adds

Code-grounded answers instead of survey-based ones. Swarmia tells you “Team A’s cycle time is up 18%.” Wystan tells you which mapped features accumulated corrective activity or runtime errors, with the evidence behind each movement. Different question, same engineering org.

Feature + flow map of the codebase
Maintenance pressure, rework and active contributors per feature
Sentry + PostHog attribution per feature
MCP server for Cursor, Claude Code, Cline, Aider
Flat per-org pricing from $99/mo, unlimited developers

using both

How they actually combine

Swarmia surfaces “Team A’s PR cycle time has risen from 1.2d to 2.4d over 6 weeks.”

Wystan tells you Team A owns 3 features. The Billing feature moved to the 91st future fix-work percentile inside this repo, has no runtime coverage report, and Sentry errors are up 22%.

The retro now has a specific target — inspect Billing’s evidence and test reach — instead of generic “process improvements.”

or alone

Just Wystan, on its own

Wystan doesn’t do DORA, SPACE, or cycle-time tracking. We don’t do people-metrics. If you want sprint-cadence dashboards for executives, you need Swarmia (or LinearB, or DX). Wystan focuses on the code side: feature map, versioned maintenance evidence, active contributors, and runtime correlation. The two together answer “how” + “what.” If you only have budget for one and you’re reporting up to leadership, Swarmia is the natural pick; Wystan is the natural pick when the question is about code rather than people.

side by side

Where each one focuses

Focus area	Swarmia	Wystan
Primary unit	Team + process metrics	Feature + flow map
DORA / SPACE metrics	✓	—
Sprint analytics	✓	—
Feature-level maintenance evidence	—	✓
Runtime signal	—	Sentry + PostHog
Pricing	Per-contributor	Per-org $99–299 / mo, unlimited developers
Best fit	Engineering org-wide reporting	Code-level + AI-agent context

honest take

No vendor pressure

Swarmia and Wystan don’t compete — they answer adjacent questions. Swarmia answers “how is the team performing?” Wystan answers “what’s the state of the code they’re working on?” Both inputs feed the same decision: where to invest engineering time. Leader-facing dashboard need → Swarmia. Code-quality + AI-agent context need → Wystan. Many orgs run both for a complete picture.

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How they actually combine

Just Wystan, on its own

Where each one focuses

No vendor pressure

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