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Engineering Health

DORA Metrics

The industry-standard framework for software delivery performance — fully automated. Know exactly how fast, how reliably, and how safely your teams ship to production.

4

Core DORA Metrics

The complete research-backed framework

Team

& Repo Breakdown

Drill into any team or repository

PR-level

Lead Time Tracing

See exactly where time is spent

Zero

Manual Tracking

Fully automated from your VCS

DORA Performance Dashboard

Last 90 days · vs previous period

Deployment Frequency

3.2/week

↑ 28% vs prior periodElite

Lead Time to Change

2d 4h

↓ 18% vs prior periodMedium

Change Failure Rate

1.8%

↓ 0.4pp vs prior periodElite

Mean Time to Recovery

42min

↓ 31% vs prior periodElite

Industry Benchmark (75th Percentile)

Deploy Freq.

≥ 1/week

Lead Time

1–7 days

Failure Rate

< 5%

MTTR

< 1 hour

The Four Pillars

The research-backed standard for delivery excellence.

DORA research from Google has established four key metrics that predict software delivery performance and organizational outcomes. Signals tracks all four automatically — no spreadsheets, no manual tagging, no guesswork.

  • Deployment Frequency — how often your teams ship working software to production
  • Lead Time to Change — from first commit to production deployment, traced per PR
  • Change Failure Rate — the percentage of releases that result in a degradation or rollback
  • Mean Time to Recovery — how quickly your teams restore service after an incident

Team & Repo Granularity

See DORA performance at every level of your org.

Org-wide averages hide the truth. Signals breaks DORA metrics down by team and by repository — so you can see which teams are shipping confidently and where slowdowns or failure rates are concentrated.

  • Compare teams side-by-side on all four DORA dimensions
  • Drill into any team to see repo-level deployment and lead time data
  • Period-over-period trends show whether each team is improving or regressing
  • Filter by any date range, team, or repository to slice the data you need
Team DORA BreakdownFeb – Mar · 75th Percentile

Team

Deploys

Lead Time

Status

Platform

84

1d 6h

Elite

Payments

62

3d 2h

Medium

Mobile

41

5d 18h

Needs Focus

Growth

77

2d 4h

High

Lead Time Breakdown · Platform Team

Coding

2h

Review

4h

Wait for Deploy

18h

Deploy

2h

What You Get

Everything you need to understand and improve delivery performance.

Stop estimating delivery health. Signals gives you the DORA numbers your teams are actually hitting — at every level of granularity.

Deployment Frequency

Track how often each team ships to production — per repo, per week, over any time range. Know whether you're releasing with the cadence elite teams achieve.

Lead Time to Change

Measure the full journey from first commit to production deployment. Visualise where time is lost — coding, review, waiting, or deploying — at the PR level.

Change Failure Rate

Know what percentage of your releases cause incidents or rollbacks. Spot teams with high failure rates before they become reliability problems.

Mean Time to Recovery

Track how quickly your teams restore service after an incident. MTTR is the clearest signal of operational maturity — and Signals tracks it automatically.

PR-Level Traceability

Click any DORA metric to see the individual pull requests and deployments behind it. Full timeline from first commit to production — no black boxes.

Industry Benchmarks

Compare every DORA metric against the 50th, 75th, and 90th industry percentiles. Know whether your lead time is truly Elite — not just better than last quarter.

How It Works

Connect. Measure. Improve delivery.

01

Connect your VCS & CI/CD

Link GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket alongside your deployment pipeline. Signals ingests commit, PR, and deployment events automatically — no agents needed.

02

DORA metrics are computed automatically

Signals calculates all four metrics across every team and repo from day one. No tagging, no manual classification — just your real delivery data.

03

Compare against industry benchmarks

See immediately whether each metric is Elite, High, Medium, or Low relative to industry peers — not just relative to your own history.

04

Track improvement over time

After every process change, compare periods to see if lead time dropped, deployment frequency increased, or failure rates came down — with hard data.

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