Engineering homepage
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The homepage in Cortex surfaces what you own, what you have access to, and what needs your attention. It allows you to centralize your work onto one page and take action on your highest priority tasks, and it highlights Scorecard and Initiative progress for your teams with quick links to the Bird's eye report.
The engineering homepage makes it easier to find the right information at the right time. It's designed for everyone — not just individual contributors.
The homepage gives you visibility into your work, your catalog, your top Scorecards, and Initiative tasks with approaching due dates. The information is organized into the following sections:
View all of your entities, or view filtered lists of your teams, domains, or services
The top 3 Scorecards for your owned entities
Initiative tasks that are due soon
You are explicitly listed as the owner, or
The entity is owned by a team you're a member of.
While viewing the homepage, you can also choose whether to include child teams in your entity lists, top Scorecards, and Initiatives. This gives you visibility into the entities that your child teams own.
To include child teams, enable the Include child teams toggle in the upper right side of the homepage:
Configure identity mapping for Git providers
Cortex automatically adds tags to pull requests to signify PRs that need a Quick review or that involve a more Complex review for convenience.
After you click into your list of reviews or list of open PRs/MRs, view a list that contains the repository, associated entity, status, and last updated date. These are not tied to an entity in Cortex, but are linked to a specific Cortex/Git user account.
Cortex refreshes pull requests from GitHub and GitLab every 2 minutes. Pull requests from Azure DevOps and Bitbucket are refreshed every 5 minutes.
While viewing the list of data from Git, you can change the display:
At the top of the list, click Display.
Configure the filters:
If you want to display draft MRs or PRs, enable the toggle next to Show drafts.
If you want to display MRs or PRs older than a month, enable the toggle next to Show older than a month.
Click Done.
Cortex runs a JQL query against your Jira instance to populate tickets that have been assigned to your associated account.
Cortex refreshes issues from Jira every 5 minutes, GitHub every 2 minutes, ClickUp every 5 minutes, and Azure DevOps every 5 minutes. You can also click Refresh issues in the upper right corner of the list to manually refresh issues.
Click Action items to view a list of action items. In this section, view the entity, the rule that needs attention, the Scorecard or Initiative that contains the rule, its due date, and the priority (based on the level configured in the Scorecard):
Tasks with deadlines are sourced from Initiatives; those without deadlines are sourced from failing Scorecard rules.
On-call information from PagerDuty is refreshed every 60 minutes. Information from Opsgenie is refreshed every minute.
From the Top Scorecards tile or from the Initiatives tile, click the Action items icon to go directly to a filtered list of action items for that Scorecard or Initiative:
You can pin plugins to your homepage. Plugins will appear in the Plugins page linked on your homepage sidebar.
To pin plugins:
Under the Homepage tab, select which plugins you want to appear on the homepage.
At the bottom of the page, click Save changes.
from Scorecards and Initiatives
You can also to your homepage.
The content that appears on your homepage is based on the . You own an entity if:
The Git features in Cortex use to connect you to your user account in your Git provider. Entities use the email address associated with your Cortex account and your Git account to connect your Cortex profile with a Git user and team.
Make sure you have properly to ensure that your Git requests appear in the dev homepage.
Open PRs or MRs and Assigned reviews on the homepage come from any Git providers you have integrated with your Cortex workspace: , , , and .
Click to view a list of all pull requests or merge requests you opened.
Click to view all the pull requests that have been assigned to you for review.
Make sure you have properly to ensure that your Git requests appear in the dev homepage.
The section includes tickets, issues, issues, or work items that are associated with your email address.
lists all that require your attention.
If your organization has an on-call integration configured ( or ) you will also see that information on the homepage:
Cortex uses your email address to determine your upcoming or current on-call status. If you do not see your expected on-call information, verify that your are configured properly.
The catalog section is driven by . You can view all your owned entities, or filtered lists of your teams, services, or domains.
If you have , these lists will also include entities owned by your child teams.
On your homepage, see a list of your top performing . On the homepage, Cortex only displays scores and details for entities that you own.
If you have any tasks with approaching due dates, you will see those listed under Initiatives due soon.
If you have , these lists will also include entities owned by your child teams.
From the Top Scorecards tile, click the Birds eye icon to go directly to the for that Scorecard:
Navigate to .
