Backstage Plugins: Another way to communicate your data
summary
Backstage plugins are used at Spotify to aggregate tools and present performance and quality data; the Lighthouse squad collects 16 billion metrics per week and exposes summarized views rather than rebuilding external systems. The org hosts about 250 plugins internally (about 130 on the marketplace), the team ships an MVP, iterates with squad feedback, and within months delivers a plugin that visualizes key metrics, links into third‑party dashboards, and lets teams drill into raw data or pipelines when needed.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:42What is Backstage
- 4:10Plugins architecture
- 7:26Ownership interface autonomy
- 11:25Spotify Lighthouse plugin
- 16:21Start with Backstage plugins
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