Set up DORA Metrics

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DORA Metrics is in public beta.

Overview

The four DORA Metrics are calculated based on two types of events:

  • Deployment events: Indicate that a new deployment has occurred for a service in a specific environment.
  • Incident events: Indicate that a new failure has occurred for a service in a specific environment.

Each event type supports different data sources.

Configure data sources

Deployments

Deployment events are used to compute deployment frequency, change lead time, and change failure rate. See the respective documentation to set up a data source for your deployment events:


Failures

Failure events, interpreted through incident events, are used to compute change failure rate and mean time to restore. See the respective documentation to set up a data source for your failure events:


Limitations

  • When you first select a data source option (such as APM Deployment Tracking or PagerDuty), DORA Metrics begins populating data from that point forward. If you switch from source A to source B, then back to source A, the historical data from source A is only available from the time it was first selected.
  • Deployments or incidents of the same service cannot occur at the same second.

Further Reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

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