Measure DORA metrics
Why it matters
DORA metrics are the industry standard for measuring software delivery performance. Without them, engineering leaders rely on gut feeling to assess whether teams are shipping fast enough, safely enough, and recovering quickly enough. Tracking DORA gives you an objective baseline and a common language for improvement conversations across the organization.
How Port helps
Port connects deployment, incident, and PR data from your existing tools into a unified software catalog & context lake. Each DORA metric is calculated per service and rolled up to team and organization level so you don't just see aggregate numbers, you see exactly which services and teams are driving the trends. Dashboards update in real time as new deployments and incidents flow in.
Example scenario
An engineering VP wants to benchmark delivery performance before a platform investment. They connect GitHub and PagerDuty to Port and within a day have DORA baselines for every team. The data reveals that while deployment frequency is healthy across most teams, one group has a change failure rate of 25% three times the org average. This becomes the first improvement target, with measurable before-and-after tracking built in.
Example dashboard
Example dora metrics dashboard based on DORA metrics guide.
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