DevOps metrics (DORA) in Atlassian Analytics

[piotr_x_zyrek]

Hi guys,

We're going to improve our DevOps processes and architecture, for this purpose we are considering using DORA metrics to indicate areas for improvement.

DORA metrics are the four benchmarks for software teams:

• Deployment Frequency
• Mean Lead Time for Changes (MLT)
• Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR)
• Change Failure Rate (CFR)

I know Atlassian's Compass offers the ability to automatically calculate DORA metrics based on integration with GitHub. Unfortunately, this is only possible with GitHub repositories in the cloud and ours are on the server.

SoI started looking for alternatives and Atlassian Analytics looks promising. For this purpose, in the jira project, we have connected our repositories with GitHub and we can see the number of branches, commits, pull requests, etc. All this information can be found in the "Development" field.

I tried to find this information in the tables in Atlassian Analytics, but unfortunately I couldn't find this field.

Can you advise how to access this data? Do you know of any other solutions that would allow us to measure DORA metrics in the Jira environment?

Thanks!

[Inder Singh · Accepted solution]

Hi @piotr_x_zyrek ,

DevOps data is not available in Atlassian Data Lake but that is something we are actively working on. However, if your data is in a supported 3rd party database, then you can try to connect to it directly from within Analytics. You will find details on how to establish the connection in the above link. 

Another option might be to use Jira Software's DevOps deployment frequency and cycle time reports (though this will only cover 2 out of 4 DORA metrics).

Thanks! 

[Dilan Anuruddha]

The closest thing I have come up so far for DORA in jira is using https://linearb.io/