Metrics Configuration
Fine-tune how DORA metrics are calculated for your organisation.
Exclusions
Filter out noise from your DORA calculations:
- Scheduled runs
- Toggle a checkbox to exclude all scheduled/cron-triggered pipeline runs from metric calculations. These runs still appear individually but don't count toward aggregate numbers.
- Excluded repositories
- List repositories (one per line, e.g.
org/repo-name) to exclude from aggregate DORA metrics. Useful for test repos, forks, or infrastructure-only repos that would skew your numbers.
Lead Time Measurement
Choose what “lead time” means for your team:
- Commit timestamp (default)
- Measures from when the code was written to when the deployment completes. Captures the full cycle including code review and merge queues.
- Pipeline trigger
- Measures only CI/CD execution time — from when the pipeline starts to when it finishes. Useful if you want to isolate pipeline performance from process overhead.
MTTR Settings
Control how Mean Time to Recovery is calculated:
- Recovery signal
- Next successful run (same branch)— any green CI run counts as recovery. Next successful deployment— only counts when code reaches production (stricter, better reflects user impact).
- Incident grouping
- Each failure— every failed run starts a new incident timer. Gives a granular view. Consecutive failures— a burst of failures counts as a single incident. Avoids inflating incident counts when the same problem causes multiple red runs.
Rating Thresholds
Customise the elite / high / medium / low bands for each DORA metric. The defaults follow the DORA research thresholds, but you can adjust them to match your team's context. Each metric has three editable boundaries:
| Metric | Unit | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment Frequency | deploys per day / week / month | Elite if ≥ value |
| Lead Time | hours | Elite if ≤ value |
| Change Failure Rate | percentage | Elite if ≤ value |
| MTTR | hours | Elite if ≤ value |
Anything below the medium threshold is rated Low. Adjust these values to set realistic targets for your team and track progress toward them.