Deckgauge

What Deckgauge is

Deckgauge is a source-available engineering intelligence platform that consolidates work activity into a board and delivery metrics. It connects through read-only integrations to Jira, GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps, pulling issues, pull requests, commits, and activity. Its reported measures include DORA metrics, flow and cycle time, review quality, AI-assisted PR share, and per-engineer workload. Teams can also use focus analysis, configurable contribution rankings, alignment boards, live roadmaps, and CapEx/OpEx reports. Deckgauge is designed for engineering leaders who want delivery visibility while keeping source-control history off a SaaS vendor’s systems. It runs on customer infrastructure with Docker and stores metrics in Postgres and ClickHouse controlled by the customer. Authentication uses Keycloak, which can broker to a customer identity provider; Microsoft Entra ID is wired and documented, while other OIDC and SAML providers are configured per deployment. The product includes role-based access and fine-grained permissions for salary data and private manager notes. A free Community plan is available, as are paid managed-hosting or commercial self-hosted licences from $600 a month. The enterprise plan includes priority support with named response times, onboarding, and security-review support. Deckgauge is built and maintained by CodPal.

Who it suits

Deckgauge is aimed at engineering leaders who want delivery measures and work activity consolidated while keeping source-control history on infrastructure they control. The free plan may suit teams able to operate their own infrastructure; organizations seeking managed hosting or a commercial self-hosted licence can consider paid plans sized by engineer count.

Limits

The free Community plan is free forever, has no engineer cap or metric feature gating, but the customer operates the infrastructure. The paid licence priced at $600 a month covers up to 25 engineers; larger listed tiers cover up to 50 or 100 engineers, while pricing above 100 is by contact. Aggregate-only mode, audit logs, and SCIM provisioning are not currently in the product.

Getting started

1. Visit the Deckgauge website.
2. Choose the free Community plan or review paid options starting at $600 a month.
3. For self-hosting, run Deckgauge on customer infrastructure with Docker.
4. Connect Jira, GitHub, GitLab, or Azure DevOps through read-only integrations.
5. Set up authentication through Keycloak and configure the identity provider for the deployment.

Verdict

Choose Deckgauge if engineering leaders need delivery visibility and want to run the platform and metrics storage on customer infrastructure. The uncapped free Community plan has no metric feature gating, while paid options add managed hosting or commercial self-hosted licensing. Look elsewhere if a SOC 2 report or contractual uptime SLA is required.