Features

Software Metrics Machine (SMM) offers multiple ways to analyze and visualize engineering metrics.

Dashboard

To see the dashboard, you first need to start it with the following command:

smm dashboard serve

The command will hang the terminal and start a local server on port 3000.

Accessing the Dashboard

The dashboard, is available under the local url http://localhost:3000 in your web browser.

The dashboard provides the following features:

• Data Visualization: View your data in various formats such as tables, charts, and graphs.
• Filtering and Sorting: Filter by date, timezone, provider-specific fields, authors, labels, paths, branches, and events.
• Saved Views: Save frequently used filters per project and dashboard section.
• Project Switching: Move between configured repositories from the project drawer.
• Cross-domain Insights: PRs, pipelines, source code, and SonarQube.
• References and Targets: Review the sources used to define metric targets and recommendations.

See Dashboard for the shared dashboard behavior.

CLI

For CLI access, run:

smm

Main command groups:

• smm prs
• smm pipelines
• smm code
• smm architecture
• smm jira
• smm sonarqube
• smm dashboard
• smm tools
• smm health-check

REST API

SMM provides a REST API for integrations and automation.

Start REST API with:

smm dashboard serve

Swagger docs are available at http://localhost:3000/api/docs by default.

See REST API for endpoint overview.

Explore

Each feature has its own page:

• Insights
• Dashboard
• Source Code
• Architecture
• Pull Requests
• Pipelines
• Configuration
• SonarQube