Confluence + Steady

Confluence integration for team coordination

Your team’s documentation already lives in Confluence—meeting notes, project specs, runbooks, knowledge base articles. But that activity doesn’t automatically translate into team visibility. Team members waste time manually linking to pages in standup messages. Managers don’t know who’s documenting what or when critical knowledge gets captured. Documentation work stays invisible while code commits and task updates get all the attention.

Steady bridges that gap. Connect Confluence and your documentation activity automatically attaches to human-written check-ins and goal updates, giving documentation work the visibility it deserves. See what Sarah documented alongside why it matters. Start with a summary in someone’s check-in, then dive into the attached Confluence pages for details. Context flows both ways.

How the Confluence integration works

Connect Confluence to Steady in 30 seconds. During setup, select which Confluence spaces to monitor—only activity from those spaces syncs to Steady, keeping your team’s coordination focused on relevant documentation.

Smart Check-ins: Confluence pages sync with each team member’s daily check-ins automatically. When Sarah updates a project spec, it appears in her standup. When Marcus creates meeting notes, they show up in today’s team update. No manual linking, no typing page URLs into Slack—Confluence activity attaches to check-ins so everyone sees documentation progress, fully contextualized by human-written summaries.

Goal Stories: Use AI-enhanced templates to quickly draft updates by automatically summarizing Confluence activity however you need it. Instead of manually reviewing spaces and copying page links, prompt the AI: “Summarize Confluence pages created or updated last month related to the product launch.” The AI synthesizes your documentation activity into high-level narratives that show knowledge capture and information sharing. Turn raw Confluence data into stakeholder-ready goal updates in seconds.

Echoes: Set up automated reports that monitor your Confluence data on whatever schedule you need. Configure an Echo to summarize documentation updates every Friday, track knowledge base growth monthly, or report on specification completeness before project kickoffs. Echoes delivers tailored Confluence summaries automatically—no more manually tracking who’s documenting what.

Insights: Confluence activity flows into Steady’s realtime analytics, giving you visibility into documentation patterns over time. The Activity report tracks total activity from Confluence and all your integrated tools, filterable by team, people, or date range. Cross-compare Confluence activity with other Insights reports—like Participation, Intentions Met, or Blockers—to understand holistic trends. Are people documenting heavily but reporting blockers? Is documentation work invisible in planning conversations? Insights connects the dots across your coordination data.

Key benefits

Make documentation work visible - When Confluence updates flow into daily check-ins automatically, documentation work gets the same visibility as code commits and task completions. Everyone can see who’s capturing knowledge, updating specs, and sharing information—all without documentation work staying invisible.

Give stakeholders visibility into knowledge capture - Project sponsors and executives see when documentation gets created or updated without constantly asking “is that documented?” or “where’s the spec?” Documentation activity surfaces automatically in check-ins and goal updates.

Draft updates that include documentation progress - Summarize Confluence activity in seconds with AI-powered templates. Pick your level of detail—high-level overview of documentation themes or page-by-page breakdown—and AI transforms page updates into polished progress reports that show knowledge capture alongside feature delivery.

Monitor multiple spaces from one place - Select which Confluence spaces matter for team coordination. Activity from those spaces flows into Steady automatically. Your team sees relevant documentation work without noise from tangential spaces.

Reduce context switching - Team members stay in their flow. Confluence activity appears in Steady automatically—no need to manually update Slack or announce every documentation update.

Use cases

Async daily standups for distributed teams - Your team spans multiple time zones and includes technical writers, developers, and product managers. Instead of synchronous status meetings, everyone submits check-ins when their day starts. Steady automatically attaches yesterday’s Confluence page updates—no one types “documented the API” because the Confluence activity is right there. The whole team sees documentation progress across time zones without synchronous coordination.

Cross-functional documentation visibility - You manage product, engineering, and support teams each maintaining different Confluence spaces. Set up an Echo that delivers a weekly summary: “High-level overview of Confluence activity from Product Specs, Engineering Runbooks, and Support Knowledge Base spaces.” Every Monday morning you get a digest showing which teams created documentation, which updated existing pages, and where knowledge capture was unusually high or low—without asking anyone for status.

Weekly stakeholder updates without manual summaries - Every Friday afternoon you need to summarize what the team documented and specified. Instead of manually reviewing page updates across multiple Confluence spaces, set up an Echo: “List all Confluence pages created or updated this week.” It delivers automatically every Friday at 3pm. Copy the summary into your stakeholder email and you’re done in two minutes.

Installation

To set up the Confluence integration, go to Account Settings -> Integrations and connect to Confluence. Read the documentation for more information.

About Confluence

Confluence is a team collaboration and knowledge management platform by Atlassian that enables teams to create, organize, and share documentation, meeting notes, and project plans in a centralized workspace. It combines rich text editing, page hierarchies, and powerful search with integrations to tools like Jira, allowing teams to build a single source of truth for company information and processes.

Frequently asked questions

How does the Confluence integration work with daily standups?

When you connect Confluence to Steady, each team member’s page updates automatically appear in their daily check-in. Team members answer standup questions via Slack, web, or mobile, and Steady attaches their Confluence activity automatically—no manual linking to documentation or status updates required.

Can I choose which Confluence spaces to monitor?

Yes. During setup, you select which Confluence spaces to monitor. Only activity from those spaces syncs to Steady. This keeps your team’s check-ins focused on relevant documentation without noise from unrelated spaces.

What Confluence data appears in Steady?

Steady syncs page updates from your selected Confluence spaces. Documentation activity appears in Smart Check-ins automatically, flows into Insights reports for trend analysis, and can be summarized using AI-enhanced templates in Goal Stories or scheduled Echoes reports.

Do team members need to do anything after Confluence is connected?

No. Once an admin connects Confluence and selects which spaces to monitor, all team members’ page activity automatically syncs to their check-ins. Team members don’t need to authenticate individually or change their workflow—just keep updating documentation normally and activity appears in Steady automatically.

Can I use Confluence with other tools for complete visibility?

Yes. Connect Confluence alongside Slack, Jira, GitHub, and other tools. When team members check in, activity from all connected tools attaches automatically. See updated Confluence pages, completed Jira tickets, and merged GitHub PRs—all in one check-in with complete context.