DevOps & OpsBacklog
Project management and bug tracking built for software development teams.
Backlog is an all-in-one project management and code collaboration platform designed specifically for software development teams, sitting in the DevOps and project management category alongside tools like Jira and Linear. It is used by engineering teams at small and mid-sized companies who want issue tracking, Git hosting, wikis, and Gantt charts under one roof without the administrative overhead of enterprise tools. The core problem it solves is the coordination cost that accumulates when developers bounce between a separate issue tracker, a code host, and a documentation tool, each with its own permission model. Backlog brings Git repositories, burndown charts, wiki documentation, and issue tracking into a single workspace so teams can move from filed bug to merged fix without switching contexts. Its visual project reporting, including built-in Gantt and board views, makes it one of the few tools where both engineers and non-technical project managers can work from the same source of truth.
Software development teams of 3 to 50 people, including both engineers and project managers, who want a unified workspace for code, tasks, and documentation without the configuration burden of Jira. The signal that it is time to adopt Backlog is when your team is copying issue numbers between two tools, when your wiki is getting stale because it lives somewhere separate from where work actually happens, or when a client keeps asking for a project status update that you have to manually compile.
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Backlogin depth.
Built-in Git Hosting
Backlog hosts Git repositories natively alongside issues, so commit messages and pull requests link directly to the tasks they address without a third-party integration. Teams get a complete code history tied to their project timeline without needing a separate GitHub or GitLab account.
Issue and Bug Tracking
The issue tracker supports custom statuses, priorities, categories, milestones, and assignees, with parent-child issue relationships for breaking epics into subtasks. This gives engineering teams a structured way to triage bugs and feature requests without configuring an enterprise-grade workflow system.
Gantt Chart Views
Built-in Gantt charts let teams visualize task dependencies and milestone timelines without exporting to a separate tool like Smartsheet or Asana. This is particularly useful for project managers who need to communicate delivery schedules to clients or stakeholders who do not live in a sprint board.
Integrated Wiki Documentation
Each project in Backlog includes a wiki where teams can write runbooks, architecture notes, and onboarding guides that live next to the issues and code they describe. Keeping documentation in the same tool reduces the drift that happens when wikis are hosted separately from the work.
SVN and Git Support
Backlog supports both Git and Subversion repositories, which makes it practical for teams migrating away from legacy SVN setups without forcing an immediate rewrite of tooling. This is a rare differentiator for companies in industries where SVN adoption persists.
Backlog integrates with Slack for notifications, Jira for migration, Cacoo for diagramming, and Typetalk for team messaging, all of which are products within the same Nulab ecosystem. In a typical software team's stack it replaces or consolidates the combination of GitHub or GitLab for code hosting plus a separate project tracker, making it most useful for teams that want fewer vendor relationships without sacrificing functionality.
Commonuse cases.
Consolidating issue tracking and code review for a small dev team
Teams migrate their Jira backlog and GitHub repositories into Backlog to eliminate the context-switching cost of maintaining two separate tools with two separate permission systems. The result is a single login, a unified notification feed, and commit-to-issue linking that works out of the box.
Managing client-facing software projects with external stakeholders
Agencies and consultancies use Backlog's guest access and milestone views to give clients visibility into delivery progress without exposing internal discussions or the full code repository. This replaces ad hoc status spreadsheets with a live, always-current project timeline.
Onboarding new engineers to an unfamiliar codebase
Engineering leads use Backlog's integrated wiki to build onboarding docs that link directly to the relevant repositories and open issues, giving new hires a single starting point instead of a scattered collection of Notion pages and GitHub READMEs. New engineers reach their first meaningful contribution faster because the context they need is co-located with the work.
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Activate credits
Once approved by the partner, credits are deployed to your account. Timelines vary by partner.
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