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 that support different data sources.

Deployment events: Indicate that a new deployment has occurred for a service in a specific environment. Deployment events are used to compute deployment frequency, change lead time, and change failure rate.
Incident events: Indicate that a new failure has occurred for a service in a specific environment. Incident events are used to compute change failure rate and mean time to restore.

Configure data sources

Select a deployment data source

DORA Metrics supports the following data sources for deployment events. See the respective documentation to set up the data source for your deployment events:

APM Deployment Tracking

Deployment Event API or datadog-ci CLI

Select an incident data source

DORA Metrics supports the following data sources for incident events. See the respective documentation to set up a data source for your incident events:

PagerDuty

Incident Event API

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.