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DORA Metrics - CI/CD Glossary Definition

DORA metrics are four research-backed measures of delivery performance: deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and MTTR.

DORA metrics are four measures of software delivery performance from the DevOps Research and Assessment program: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery.

The four metrics

Two measure throughput (deployment frequency, lead time for changes) and two measure stability (change failure rate, mean time to recovery). Elite teams score well on all four at once.

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