What you are actually choosing between
Searching for an Azure DevOps contributions graph turns up several tools with similar names. The useful questions are where the graph lives, whose activity it can show, and what it counts. I'm the developer of Commit Graph for Azure Repos, so that is one of the options below. Check each Marketplace listing before you install anything, because features and prices change.
Where the graph lives
Some tools are dashboard widgets. You add them to a team dashboard and everyone who opens the dashboard sees the same graph. Others are hubs inside Repos, where each person opens the page and picks who to look at. A dashboard widget suits a team wall screen. A hub suits a manager preparing for a 1:1 or a retrospective.
Whose activity it can show
Some extensions only show the signed-in user's own commits. That is fine for a personal activity view, but it cannot answer the question most teams ask, which is what a particular colleague contributed over the year. Others let you filter to any contributor or show the whole team together.
What it counts
Commits are the baseline. Pull-request comments are the part that often goes missing, even though code review is a large share of real engineering work and never appears in a commit list. Work items and pull requests themselves are a further step again. Decide which of these matter to you before comparing tools, since a commit-only graph will undercount reviewers.
The options
- Contributions widget (open source, knowall-ai). A dashboard widget with a GitHub-style yearly calendar covering commits, pull requests, work items and TFVC changesets, with a user filter. It lives on a dashboard rather than in the Repos hub. Source: github.com/knowall-ai/devops-contributions.
- Contribution Heatmap. A calendar of your own Azure Repos commits that runs entirely inside Azure DevOps. It shows the signed-in user only.
- Commit Graph for Azure Repos (mine). A hub in Azure Repos with a person picker. It combines commits and real pull-request comments across every repository in the current project, client-side with the viewer's own credentials. Free shows your own graph. Pro adds every contributor for US$10 a month per organization.
How to decide
If you want a team-wide dashboard tile and care about work items, start with the open-source widget. If you only want your own commit calendar, the free own-commits tools are enough. If you need to look at any one person across all repositories in a project, including their review comments, you need a tool with a person picker and pull-request comment counting.
Try the person-by-person view
The interactive demo on the product page uses sample data, so you can see the graph and the hover detail before installing.
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