🤖 Engineering
How to use Dust for Engineering Teams
How do Engineering teams use Dust?
Dust empowers engineering teams with AI-driven tools to streamline coding processes, manage incidents, and access documentation efficiently.
| Use Case | Task to tackle |
|---|---|
| Code Assistance | Provide support for coding queries, including writing, debugging, and answering programming-related questions - with context from your internal documentation, code base, and external documentation at the same time. |
| Incident Post-Mortem Draft | Take an incident channel and automatically draft a post-mortem document following your company's best practices. |
| Incidents Highlights | Provide recurring recaps of incidents. Giving you key points from large sets of unstructured data, choose the timeframe, and define the format under which you want it to retrieve the information with the extract data feature. |
| External Documentation FAQ | Get a conversational interface to the documentation or FAQ of any external documentation. Can be set up in a few minutes. |
Tutorial & Guides
1. Code Assistance
Provide support for coding queries, including writing, debugging, and answering programming-related questions - with context from your internal documentation, code base, and external documentation at the same time.
➡️ Follow thisUser Guide
2. Incident Post-Mortem Draft
Provide support for coding queries, including writing, debugging, and answering programming-related questions - with context from your internal documentation, code base, and external documentation at the same time.
➡️ Follow thisUser Guide
3. Incidents Highlights
Provide support for coding queries, including writing, debugging, and answering programming-related questions - with context from your internal documentation, code base, and external documentation at the same time.
➡️ Follow thisUser Guide
4. External Documentation FAQ
Provide support for coding queries, including writing, debugging, and answering programming-related questions - with context from your internal documentation, code base, and external documentation at the same time.
➡️ Follow thisUser Guide
Go further with 3rd party MCPs
Connect context from any MCP server to help your engineering agents work with more of your stack.
- GitHub: Automates engineering workflows around issues, PRs, discussions, PR reviews, issue comments, and PR summaries or changelog entries.
- Linear & Jira: Helps engineering teams create, update, search, and summarize issues/projects.
- Statuspage: Lets agents create and update customer-facing incident updates from internal incident context.
- Supabase: Supports backend and database operations, useful for querying project state, debugging backend issues, and managing Supabase-powered apps.
- Val Town: Lets agents run lightweight TypeScript/JavaScript automations, call APIs, transform data, and prototype small internal tools.
- Amplitude: Helps engineers investigate product behavior, event regressions, experiments, cohorts, session replays, and user-level product issues.
- Snowflake / BigQuery / Databricks: Lets engineering teams ask natural-language questions over production or product data to debug incidents, validate migrations, or inspect user/workspace state.
- Costory: Helps engineering and platform teams investigate cloud or AI spend, compare costs over time, create alerts, and generate FinOps reports.