Backstage Tech Insights #7: Custom Fact Retrievers
Over the past six posts, we set up Tech Insights end to end using the built-in fact retrievers. These retrievers gave us facts covering metadata completeness, ownership, and TechDocs, and you have seen them in the UI through scorecards and service maturity. That’s a solid foundation. But those facts only tell you about Backstage entity metadata and TechDocs. They inspect catalog metadata such as metadata.title, metadata.description, spec.owner, and annotations. That’s all they can see. ...