23 posts tagged with "Diagrams"

Engineering teams need diagrams in Confluence — flowcharts for runbooks, sequence diagrams for API docs, ER models for database schemas, architecture diagrams for design decisions. Writing diagrams as code (text-based syntax) is faster than drag-and-drop for developers. Mermaid is the most popular text-based diagram language.

Several marketplace apps bring Mermaid to Confluence, plus the major visual diagramming tools (draw.io, Gliffy, Lucidchart) also support it. We built Mermaid Plus for Confluence to offer 26 diagram types with live preview, one-click templates, and a built-in syntax guide. In this post we compare it against every alternative.

Teams need to draw in Confluence — architecture sketches on design docs, wireframes on user stories, flowcharts on runbooks, whiteboard sessions captured as diagrams. Confluence has no built-in drawing tool.

Several marketplace apps fill this gap, from the dominant draw.io (66,827 installs) to specialized Excalidraw-based whiteboards. We built Excalidraw Plus Whiteboards for Confluence to bring the popular Excalidraw drawing tool into Confluence with 229 bundled shape libraries and Mermaid import. In this post we compare it against the alternatives.