Purpose

Deployment Frequency shows a number of deployments per calendar month/week. This is to understand an average pace of changes deployed to Production environment on a project. According to Agile principles, a rule of thumb is to deploy smaller increments but more frequently. 

How metric helps

Deployment Frequency is a measure of how frequently your team deploys code changes. This metric answers the question “how often do we deploy to production or staging or other env through the CI/CD pipeline?”

As per Agile principles, a good practice is to deploy more frequently in a smaller chunks. This metric, showing what are deployment averages today, can help chasing more advanced targets, for example to reach a deployment frequency of once per week during the next quarter. 

How it works

Chart overview

Chart shows a number of deployments (Axis Y) per calendar month or weeks (Axis X). If multiple jobs are being monitored (set in Project Configuration) - each job is displayed as a separate series - column.

Next to the chart name there is a link to navigate to CI/CD tool ('arrow' icon) for further details.

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On hover over a series a hint appears containing:

• Time interval;

• Amount of deployments during that interval;

• Job name deployed successfully to the selected environment.

Calculation formula

Deployment Frequency is number of successful runs of deployment jobs. Deployment job is a job selected in CI/CD data source configuration in 'Select jobs used for deployment: to production environment; to other environments' (see also PERF Data Source - Jenkins). 

RAG thresholds: no.

Data Source

Data for the metric can be collected from Jenkins/GitLab CI.

See Also

• Releases by Month