DORA Metrics: Vital Signs for Your CI/CD Pipeline
DORA metrics are four vital signs for your software delivery process, balancing speed and stability. They benchmark DevOps performance from commit to production. The main footgun is optimizing for speed while ignoring stability, leading to frequent outages.
DORA metrics are four vital signs for your software delivery pipeline, balancing throughput and stability. They consist of two speed metrics (Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes) and two stability metrics (Change Failure Rate, Time to Restore Service). Teams use them to get a holistic view of their DevOps health and track improvements. The biggest footgun is optimizing for speed alone, which leads to shipping fast but breaking production, eroding trust and burning out your team.
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