Backstage Integrations

Backstage's plugin system is its core extensibility mechanism. Frontend plugins (React) for UI. Backend plugins (Node.js) for APIs. Core plugins: Catalog, Scaffolder, TechDocs, Kubernetes, Search. Official plugins maintained by CNCF community.

Kubernetes plugin: cluster inspection, resource views, pod logs, exec. ArgoCD plugin: application sync status, health. Flux plugin: kustomization/helmrelease status. AWS/Azure/GCP plugins for resource views. Crossplane plugin for composition management.

GitHub Actions plugin: workflow runs, job status, logs. GitLab CI plugin: pipeline status, job details. Jenkins plugin: build history, console output. CircleCI plugin: workflow status. Azure DevOps plugin. Tekton plugin. Buildkite plugin.

Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, VictorOps, Splunk, Elastic, Honeycomb, Lightstep plugins. Service-level dashboards with metrics, traces, logs. SLO/SLI tracking. Incident management integration.

Snyk, Aqua Trivy, SonarQube, Checkmarx, Veracode, OWASP Dependency Check plugins. Vulnerability scanning in catalog. Policy plugins for scorecards (community). Secrets detection. SBOM generation.

Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Mattermost plugins for notifications. Jira, Linear, Asana, Trello, GitHub Issues, GitLab Issues for task management. Confluence, Notion, GitBook for documentation. Calendar integration.

npm, Maven, PyPI, NuGet, Cargo, Go Modules, Docker, Helm, Cargo plugins. Package vulnerability scanning. License compliance. Dependency graph visualization. Internal package registry integration (Artifactory, Nexus, GitHub Packages).

Create frontend plugins (React/TypeScript) for custom UI. Backend plugins (Express/Node.js) for API integration. Permission framework for authz. Database migrations. Plugin testing utilities. Publish to npm or private registry. Backstage CLI for scaffolding.