What is DORA Metrics?
Four key metrics for measuring software delivery performance: deploy frequency, lead time, MTTR, and change failure rate.
DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics are four key measures of software delivery performance: Deployment Frequency (how often you deploy to production), Lead Time for Changes (how long from code commit to production), Change Failure Rate (percentage of deployments causing incidents), and Mean Time to Restore (how long to recover from failures). Elite teams deploy multiple times per day with lead times under one hour. These metrics help teams identify where to improve.
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