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Measure your delivery performance with DORA metrics

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Venue.sh Team
Venue.sh Team
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Development Insights now ships with a DORA dashboard. It tracks the four industry-standard DORA metrics for your organization, benchmarks each one against the official DORA research levels, and lets you drill into the data behind every number.

The four DORA metrics, in one view​

The dashboard opens with an at-a-glance table that places each of your metrics in its benchmark tier - low, medium, high, or elite - so you can see where your organization stands in seconds. Below it, a stat panel for each metric shows your current value for the selected time period:

  • Deployment Frequency - How often your organization deploys code to production, measured in deployment days per week or month.
  • Lead Time for Changes - The median time for a code change to reach production, from first commit to deployment.
  • Change Failure Rate - The percentage of production deployments that result in incidents.
  • Failed Deployment Recovery Time - The median time to recover when a production deployment causes an incident.

Each value is color-coded by benchmark tier, so a glance tells you whether a metric sits at elite (purple), high (green), medium (yellow), or low (red).

Benchmarks you can choose​

DORA's research benchmarks changed between report years, and the dashboard supports both:

  • 2023 report - The current benchmark thresholds, including the Failed Deployment Recovery Time metric.
  • 2021 report - The earlier thresholds, which measure Median Time to Restore Service instead.

Use the DORA Report selector at the top of the dashboard to switch between them. Panel titles and benchmark thresholds update to match the selected report.

Numbers without context are hard to act on, so the dashboard pairs every metric with history and detail:

  • Monthly trend charts - Bar charts show deployments per month, median lead time, change failure rate, and recovery time over time, so you can see whether each metric is improving.
  • Drill-down dashboards - Click any metric to open a dedicated drill-down view of the underlying deployments, pull requests, or incidents.
  • Project and time filters - Use the Project filter to scope metrics to one or more projects, and the date range selector to adjust the window. The dashboard defaults to the last six months.

See Also​

  • Development Insights - Enable and configure engineering metrics for your organization.
  • Dashboards - Filter, refresh, and explore your Development Insights panels.