DORA Metrics Calculator

DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) is a research program that identified four metrics that correlate with high-performing software teams: Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Mean Time to Restore (MTTR), and Change Failure Rate. The annual State of DevOps reports group teams into Elite, High, Medium, and Low performance tiers based on these.

How often you push code to production. Elite teams deploy on demand (multiple times per day); High teams deploy weekly to daily; Medium teams deploy monthly to weekly; Low teams deploy less than monthly. Count successful production deploys, not failed ones.

The time from a developer's commit landing on the main branch to that change running in production. Elite is under a day; High is up to a week; Medium is up to a month; Low is more than a month. Use the median, not the average — outliers from rare massive changes can distort an average.

Mean Time to Restore is the median time between an incident being detected and service being restored. Elite teams restore within an hour; High within a day; Medium within a week. MTTR rewards observability and rollback discipline, not how quickly you write a postmortem.

The percentage of deploys that cause an incident, hotfix, or rollback. Elite teams sit at 0–5%; the published threshold for High is 5–10%, Medium is 10–15%, and Low is above 15%. A high CFR is usually about test coverage and rollout strategy (canaries, feature flags), not engineer skill.

DORA publishes refreshed benchmarks in the annual State of DevOps Report. The thresholds shift gradually as the industry baseline improves. Use this calculator as a directional check; for hiring or executive reporting, verify against the current year's published report.