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DORA Metrics Calculator
Find your DevOps performance tier in 30 seconds. Enter your four DORA metrics and see whether your team is Elite, High, Medium, or Low — with specific improvement targets.
DORA Metrics Calculator
Enter your team's current DevOps metrics to find your DORA tier.
How often does your team deploy to production?
From code commit to production — median in days
% of deployments that caused an incident or required rollback
Average minutes to restore service after a production incident
DORA metrics benchmarks — the full table
Frequently asked questions about DORA metrics
What are DORA metrics?+
DORA metrics (from the DevOps Research and Assessment program) are four key measures of software delivery performance: Deployment Frequency (how often you deploy to production), Lead Time for Changes (time from code commit to production), Change Failure Rate (percentage of deployments causing an incident), and Mean Time to Recovery / MTTR (how long to restore service after an incident). They are used to benchmark DevOps team performance as Elite, High, Medium, or Low.
What is DORA Elite performance?+
DORA Elite performers deploy multiple times per day, have a lead time for changes under one hour, maintain a change failure rate below 5%, and recover from incidents in under one hour (MTTR < 60 minutes). Elite teams represent the top 10% of DevOps performance globally and are most common at high-maturity technology companies.
What is a good change failure rate?+
DORA Elite teams have a change failure rate below 5%, meaning fewer than 5% of their deployments cause an incident or require rollback. DORA High performers are below 15%. A change failure rate above 30% is classified as Low (DORA's lowest tier) and indicates that deployments are creating more incidents than they deliver value.
What is a good MTTR for DevOps?+
DORA Elite teams restore service in under one hour (MTTR < 60 minutes). DORA High performers recover within one day. DORA Medium teams recover within one week. MTTR above one week is classified as Low. MTTR is often the easiest DORA metric to improve — better monitoring, runbooks, and on-call processes can cut MTTR significantly without code changes.
How do I improve my DORA metrics?+
Start by identifying which of the four DORA metrics is lowest, then focus improvement efforts there. High change failure rate: add canary deployments and better test coverage for your most unstable services. High MTTR: improve alerting and runbooks. Long lead time: remove manual approval gates and improve CI speed. Low deployment frequency is usually caused by one of the other three — fix those first.