Weekly
Deployment Frequency
How often the team ships to production.
Number
Software engineering
Software engineering and DevOps KPIs: the four DORA metrics, cycle time, pull request size, test coverage, escaped defects and incident rate.
Starter dashboardThe 6 KPIs most teams in Software engineering track, each in its best chart
Weekly
Lead Time for Changes
How long it takes a code change to go from commit to running in production.
Hours
Monthly
Change Failure Rate
The share of production deployments that cause a failure needing a fix, rollback or hotfix.
Percent
Monthly
Failed Deployment Recovery Time
How long it takes to restore service after a failed deployment or production incident.
Hours
Weekly
Cycle Time
How long a work item takes from starting work to done.
Days
Weekly
Throughput
The number of work items finished per week (or sprint).
Number
Weekly
Pull Request Review Time
How long a pull request waits from opening to its first review.
Hours
Weekly
Pull Request Size
The median number of lines changed in a pull request.
Number
Monthly
Escaped Defects
Bugs found in production (by users or monitoring) rather than before release.
Number
Weekly
Open Bug Backlog
The number of open bugs, usually split by severity and age.
Number
Weekly
Test Coverage
The share of code lines (or branches) run by automated tests.
Percent
Daily
Build Success Rate
The share of CI pipeline runs that pass.
Percent
Weekly
Build Duration
How long the CI pipeline takes to run.
Minutes
Real time
API Latency (p95)
The time within which 95% of requests to a service are answered.
Seconds
Real time
Request Error Rate
The share of requests to a service that failed with a server error.
Percent
Daily
Error Budget Remaining
How much of the allowed unreliability under the service level objective is left this period.
Percent
Monthly
Time Spent on Unplanned Work
The share of engineering time spent on bugs, incidents and rework instead of planned work.
Percent