Rootly plugin for Backstage

The Rootly plugin is a frontend plugin that displays Rootly services, incidents in Backstage. The plugin includes three components that can be integrated into Backstage:

• The RootlyPage routable extension component which produces a standalone page with the following capabilities:

  • View and search a list of entities and import/link them to rootly services
  • View and search a list of services
  • View and search a list of incidents

• The RootlyOverviewCard component which produces a summary of your entity with incidents over last 30 days and ongoing incidents.

• The RootlyIncidentsPage component which produces a dedicated page within your entity with details about ongoing and past incidents.

You can link and import entities in rootly services through Backstage Web UI or through annotations.

Installation

Creating an Rootly API key

Because of the features provided by the plugin, an API key with full access to your Rootly domain is required.

• Read access on services is needed to list services, write access to link entities to services.
• Read access on incidents needed to list incidents.

1. Go to Profile -> Manage API Keys.

2. Click on Generate New API Key button.

3. Copy the key.

   

Backstage Setup

Add the plugin to your frontend app:

cd packages/app && yarn add @rootly/backstage-plugin

Configure the plugin in app-config.yaml. The proxy endpoint described below will allow the frontend to authenticate with Rootly without exposing your API key to users.

# app-config.yaml
proxy:
  '/rootly/api':
    target: https://api.rootly.com
    headers:
      Authorization: Bearer ${ROOTLY_API_KEY}

Annotations

Available annotations are the following:

rootly.com/service-id: 7a328a08-6701-445e-a1ad-ca2fb913ed1e # Use service-id or service-slug. Not both.
rootly.com/service-slug: elasticsearch-staging # Use service-id or service-slug. Not both.
rootly.com/service-auto-import: enabled # This will auto import the entity as a rootly service if we don't find any.

Example

apiVersion: backstage.io/v1alpha1
kind: Component
metadata:
  name: elasticsearch-staging
  description: |
   elasticsearch-staging
  annotations:
    github.com/project-slug: backstage/backstage
    backstage.io/techdocs-ref: dir:.
    lighthouse.com/website-url: https://rootly.com
    rootly.com/service-slug: elasticsearch-staging
    rootly.com/service-auto-import: enabled
spec:
  type: grpc
  owner: guests
  lifecycle: experimental

Global

RootlyPage component

Expose the Rootly global page:

// packages/app/src/App.tsx
import { RootlyPage } from '@rootly/backstage-plugin';

// ...
const AppRoutes = () => (
  <FlatRoutes>
    // ...
    <Route path="/Rootly" element={<RootlyPage />} />
    // ...
  </FlatRoutes>
);

Add a link to the sidebar:

// packages/app/src/components/Root/Root.tsx
import ExtensionIcon from '@material-ui/icons/ExtensionIcon';

export const Root = ({ children }: PropsWithChildren<{}>) => (
  <SidebarPage>
    <Sidebar>
      // ...
      <SidebarItem icon={ExtensionIcon} to="rootly" text="Rootly" />
      // ...
    </Sidebar>
  </SidebarPage>
);

Entity

RootlyOverviewCard component

// packages/app/src/components/catalog/EntityPage.tsx
import { RootlyOverviewCard, isRootlyAvailable } from '@rootly/backstage-plugin';

// ...
const overviewContent = (
  <Grid container spacing={3} alignItems="stretch">
    // ...
    <EntitySwitch>
      <EntitySwitch.Case if={isRootlyAvailable}>
        <Grid item sm={6}>
          <RootlyOverviewCard />
        </Grid>
      </EntitySwitch.Case>
    </EntitySwitch>
    // ...
  </Grid>
);

RootlyIncidentsPage component

// packages/app/src/components/catalog/EntityPage.tsx
import { RootlyIncidentsPage } from '@rootly/backstage-plugin';

// ...
const websiteEntityPage = (
  <EntityLayout>
    <EntityLayout.Route path="/" title="Overview">
      {overviewContent}
    </EntityLayout.Route>

    // ...

    <EntityLayout.Route path="/docs" title="Docs">
      <EntityTechdocsContent />
    </EntityLayout.Route>

    <EntityLayout.Route path="/rootly" title="Rootly">
      <EntitySwitch.Case if={isRootlyAvailable}>
        <Grid item sm={6}>
          <RootlyIncidentsPage />
        </Grid>
      </EntitySwitch.Case>
    </EntityLayout.Route>
  </EntityLayout>
);

// ...
const serviceEntityPage = (
  <EntityLayout>
    <EntityLayout.Route path="/" title="Overview">
      {overviewContent}
    </EntityLayout.Route>

    // ...

    <EntityLayout.Route path="/docs" title="Docs">
      <EntityTechdocsContent />
    </EntityLayout.Route>

    <EntityLayout.Route path="/rootly" title="Rootly">
      <RootlyIncidentsPage />
    </EntityLayout.Route>
  </EntityLayout>
);

License

This library is under the MIT license.