DORA Metrics Dashboard - Grafana Template

DORA Metrics Dashboard

This Grafana dashboard provides a comprehensive view of the four key DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics that measure software delivery performance.

Metrics Tracked

1. Deployment Frequency: How often code is deployed to production
2. Lead Time for Changes: Time from code commit to production deployment
3. Time to Restore Service (MTTR): How quickly you recover from failures
4. Change Failure Rate: Percentage of deployments causing failures

Dashboard Preview

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  DORA Metrics Dashboard                                         │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                                                  │
│  Deployment Frequency (Last 30 Days)                            │
│  ████████████████████░░░░  15 per day  Target: 10 per day      │
│                                                                  │
│  Lead Time for Changes (Last 30 Days)                           │
│  ██████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░  4.2 hours  Target: 2 hours             │
│                                                                  │
│  Time to Restore (MTTR)                                         │
│  ████████████░░░░░░░░  32 minutes  Target: 30 minutes          │
│                                                                  │
│  Change Failure Rate                                            │
│  ███████████████████░  3.2%  Target: {"<"}5%                   │
│                                                                  │
│  Performance Level: HIGH PERFORMER ✅                           │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Data Sources Required

• GitHub Actions / GitLab CI: For deployment events
• Jira / Linear: For issue tracking
• PagerDuty / Opsgenie: For incident data
• Prometheus / CloudWatch: For metrics collection

Installation

Option 1: Import JSON (Recommended)

1. Download the dashboard JSON: dora-grafana.json
2. In Grafana, go to Dashboards → Import
3. Upload the JSON file or paste its contents
4. Configure your data sources
5. Customize variables (team, environment)

Option 2: Manual Setup

{
  "dashboard": {
    "title": "DORA Metrics",
    "panels": [
      {
        "title": "Deployment Frequency",
        "type": "stat",
        "targets": [
          {
            "expr": "sum(rate(deployments_total[30d]))",
            "legendFormat": "Deployments per day"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Lead Time",
        "type": "graph",
        "targets": [
          {
            "expr": "histogram_quantile(0.95, lead_time_seconds_bucket)",
            "legendFormat": "p95 Lead Time"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

Prometheus Queries

# Deployment Frequency (per day)
sum(rate(deployments_total[30d])) * 86400

# Lead Time (p95 in hours)
histogram_quantile(0.95, rate(lead_time_seconds_bucket[30d])) / 3600

# MTTR (mean time to recovery in minutes)
avg(incident_resolution_time_seconds) / 60

# Change Failure Rate (percentage)
(sum(rate(deployment_failures_total[30d])) / sum(rate(deployments_total[30d]))) * 100

Customization Guide

Variables:

• $environment: production, staging, development
• $team: backend, frontend, platform
• $timerange: 7d, 30d, 90d

Thresholds: Customize based on your targets:

• Elite: Deploy frequency {">"}100 per day, Lead time {"<"}1h, MTTR {"<"}15min, CFR {"<"}5%
• High: Deploy {">"}7 per day, Lead time {"<"}1 day, MTTR {"<"}1h, CFR {"<"}15%
• Medium: Deploy weekly, Lead time {"<"}1 week, MTTR {"<"}1 day, CFR {"<"}30%

Related Dashboards

• Team Health Dashboard
• Cost Optimization Dashboard
• Infrastructure Dashboard

Download: dora-grafana.json Last Updated: 2025-11-17