> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://help.swarmia.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://help.swarmia.com/data-model/entities.md).

# Entities

These are the common data models Swarmia uses to normalize and abstract over your data set. You can interact with these models through various facets of Swarmia, such as the built-in reports in the app, your custom reports, the export API, Swarmia AI and the MCP server.

* [Author](/data-model/entities/author.md) — Authors are the people or bots that can be attributed different kinds of work items (commits, pull requests, reviews). Authors can be linked to multiple identities across different systems (GitHub, Slack, Jira, etc.).
* [Author attribute](/data-model/entities/author-attribute.md) **Beta** — Attribute that can be set on authors, such as Job title or City.
* [Author attribute value](/data-model/entities/author-attribute-value.md) **Beta** — One distinct value in use for an attribute, such as New York for City or Engineer for Job title.
* [Incident](/data-model/entities/incident.md) **Beta** — Operational incidents synced from incident management tools (PagerDuty or incident.io).
* [Incident service](/data-model/entities/incident-service.md) **Beta** — Services tracked in incident management tools (such as APIs, databases, etc.).
* [Incident source](/data-model/entities/incident-source-installation.md) **Beta** — Incident management accounts connected to Swarmia.
* [Issue](/data-model/entities/issue.md) — Issues represent work items in your issue tracker (such as Jira, Linear, etc.).
* [Pull request](/data-model/entities/pull-request.md) — Pull requests represent work items in your code repository (such as GitHub, GitLab, etc.).
* [Team](/data-model/entities/team.md) — Teams represent your organization structure and are the owners of other entities like issues and pull requests.
* [Team membership](/data-model/entities/team-membership.md) — Team memberships represent the periods when authors belong to teams, including inherited memberships through the team hierarchy.

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