middlewarehq Review, Pricing & Features

middlewarehq review 2026: open-source DORA metrics platform pricing, GitHub integration, self-hosting, and alternatives like LinearB and Jellyfish.

Category
DevOps
Pricing
Open Source, from Free (self-hosted, open source)
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Last updated
July 18, 2026
Founded
2022
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Open SourceSelf-Hosted

Overview

middlewarehq is the open-source DORA metrics project maintained by Middleware, a San Francisco startup founded by Laduram Vishnoi in late 2022 and backed by Y Combinator (W23) and an 8VC-led seed round. The project computes the four DORA metrics, deployment frequency, lead time for changes, mean time to restore, and change failure rate, directly from a team's Git and CI/CD data.

Released under the Apache 2.0 license and written in TypeScript, middlewarehq (also published as the dora-metrics repository) is designed to be deployed via Docker, either self-hosted by an engineering organization or run through Middleware's managed cloud offering.

Key Features

The platform's central feature is automatic DORA metric calculation pulled from GitHub activity and CI/CD pipeline data, removing the need for engineering leaders to manually assemble delivery-performance spreadsheets. Dashboards benchmark a team's results against the standard DORA performance tiers of Elite, High, Medium, and Low.

Because it is open source, engineering teams with strict data-residency or security requirements can self-host the entire stack rather than sending source-control metadata to a third-party SaaS vendor, while still getting the same metric definitions used by commercial competitors.

Pricing

The middlewarehq open-source project itself is completely free to self-host under the Apache 2.0 license, with Docker-based deployment and community support through GitHub. There is no license fee for running it on a company's own infrastructure.

Middleware, the company behind the project, also offers a broader commercial AI-based observability platform and managed hosting option for teams that would rather not operate the open-source stack themselves; pricing for that managed offering is arranged directly with the company rather than published as fixed self-serve tiers.

Key Features

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Free and open source, no vendor lock-in
  • Self-hostable for teams with data-residency or security requirements
  • Focused specifically on the well-established DORA metric framework
  • Active GitHub project backed by a funded startup
  • Docker-based deployment is straightforward for DevOps teams

Cons

  • Requires self-hosting and DevOps effort unless using the managed version
  • Primarily built around GitHub; other Git providers may have less mature support
  • Smaller community and ecosystem than established commercial competitors
  • Limited to DORA metrics rather than broader engineering analytics out of the box
  • Documentation and support are community-driven for the open-source edition

Pricing

Frequently Asked Questions

Is middlewarehq free?

Yes, the core project is open source under the Apache 2.0 license and free to self-host.

Who makes middlewarehq?

Middleware, a Y Combinator (W23) and 8VC-backed startup founded by Laduram Vishnoi.

What are DORA metrics?

Four metrics from DevOps Research and Assessment: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, mean time to restore, and change failure rate.

How is middlewarehq deployed?

Via Docker, either self-hosted or as a managed cloud offering from Middleware.

Which Git providers does middlewarehq support?

GitHub is the primary supported source, with broader Git data support as a stated project goal.

Who is middlewarehq for?

Engineering leaders and DevOps or platform teams wanting objective software delivery performance metrics.

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