DORA metrics

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GET /v1/projects/{p}/dora?from&to&service&env returns the four DORA metrics and a band for each.

Metric

Source

Elite

High

Medium

Low

Deployment frequency

finished deployments / days in range

>= 1 per day

>= 1 per week

>= 1 per month

less

Lead time for changes

median of deployment time minus the oldest commit time of the release

< 1 day

< 1 week

< 30 days

more

Change failure rate

deployments that ended failed or were followed within 24 h by an incident, over all deployments

<= 5%

<= 10%

<= 15%

more

Time to restore

median of incident resolved minus declared

< 1 hour

< 1 day

< 1 week

more

The overall band is the lowest band among the metrics that have data. These are our reading of the published DORA bands.

Limits: deployments carry no service, so service filters incidents only. Error regressions after a deploy do not count as failures yet.

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