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Overview
DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics are four key metrics that indicate the velocity and stability of software development.
- Deployment frequency
- How often an organization successfully releases to production.
- Change lead time
- The amount of time it takes a commit to get into production.
- Change failure rate
- The percentage of deployments causing a failure in production.
- Time to restore service
- How long it takes an organization to recover from a failure in production.
Defining and tracking DORA metrics can help you identify areas of improvement for your team or organization’s speed and quality of software delivery.
Set up DORA Metrics
To start configuring data sources to send deployment and failure events to Datadog, see the Setup documentation.
Analyze DORA Metrics
After you’ve set up the data sources for your deployment and failure events, navigate to Software Delivery > DORA Metrics to identify improvements or regressions for each metric. You can also aggregate the metrics by team, service, repository, environment, time period, and custom tags to compare trends over time.
Click View Deployments to open a new tab with the Deployment Frequency and Change Lead Time metrics in addition to a list of deployment events.
Click View Failures to open a side panel with the Change Failure Rate and Time To Restore metrics in addition to a list of failure events.
Use DORA Metrics data
Export your visualization widgets to dashboards, notebooks, or add them to existing incidents.
Click the Export icon on any visualization to add it to an incident, dashboard, or notebook. For more information about the metrics calculated by DORA Metrics, see the Data Collected documentation.
Create custom dashboards
DORA metrics are highly flexible and can be used in custom dashboards to fit your team’s specific needs.
Within dashboards and graphs, custom tags are treated as attributes. To filter or group by a custom tag, it must be prefixed with an @ symbol.
Further Reading
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