Last updated Dec 13, 2024

What is a component?

A component is the combined output of a software engineering team, typically tracked in source control. A dedicated team owns, develops, and operates a component.

In a distributed architecture, teams produce many components that are related to each other or depend upon each other. Several related components together form a website, application, or service.

Compass's component catalog gives you a unified view of all information about your components. The first step to build a component catalog is to create components. Learn how to create components in Compass

Compass components are different to Jira components. Jira components are subsections of Jira projects, used to group issues within a project into smaller parts. Learn more about Jira components

Component types

Compass supports the following component types:

Service
Application
Library
Capability
Cloud resource
Data pipeline
Machine learning model
UI element
Website
Dataset
Dashboard
Data product
Other

Learn more about the different component types

Component details

All components have a lot of associated information:

a type – service, application, library, or something else
attributes such as ID, name, description, type, owner, and more
relationships with other components in the software architecture
resources such as a source code repository, a Jira project, documentation, and dashboards
scores measuring the health and operational readiness to determine compliance with your organizations best practices

Having this information in a central location simplifies the management and use of your components. Compass brings this dispersed information about your components to one place. Learn how to view a component's details