Optional metadata such as metadata.title and metadata.description can be quite useful to users of the Backstage catalog. You can use Tech Insights to find components which are not fully filled out.

For example, you can create a check with the following attributes to find services which are missing the title metadata:

Field Input
Name Ensure titles are present on Backstage entities.
Description A title is a human readable name for the Backstage component.
Data source Entity Metadata (this is built-in).
Fact Has Title
Fact operator Is True