DORA Metrics

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 ratio of deployments that fail and require immediate intervention.
Failed deployment recovery time: The time it takes to recover from a deployment that fails and requires immediate intervention.

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 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.

An overview of DORA Metrics calculations filtered by the Language custom tag

Click View Deployments to open a new tab with the list of deployment events.

The Deployments Breakdown displaying a breakdown of metrics and a list of related events

Click View Change Failures to open a side panel with the list of deployment events marked as change failures.

The Failures Breakdown displaying a breakdown of metrics and a list of related events

Use DORA Metrics data

Export DORA Metrics widgets

Export your visualization widgets to dashboards, notebooks, or add them to existing incidents.

Click the Export icon to add the visualization widget to an incident or to a dashboard or notebook

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.