What is DORA Metrics?
The DORA research program (Accelerate, State of DevOps Report) identified four metrics that correlate with high-performing software teams. Tracking them exposes whether architecture decisions — coupling, deployability, observability — help or hurt real outcomes. DORA is diagnostic: the numbers are a prompt for the next conversation, not a leaderboard.
Also known as: dora, four key metrics.
Related terms
- Deployment Frequency — How often a team successfully ships code to production. One of the four DORA metrics.
- Lead Time for Changes — The time between a code change being committed and that change running in production.
- Change Failure Rate — The percentage of deployments that cause a degradation in production and require remediation.
- Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) — The average time it takes to restore service after a production incident.