What is Deployment Frequency?
📄 Deployment Frequency uses your CI/CD data to calculate the number of successful deployments to production a group of people has in a given time period. It is an indication of how frequently and consistently teams are able to deliver new value to customers and end-users.
Monitor this data in your Uplevel Dashboard to make sure your teams are deploying regularly.
Deployments to production are estimated for each repository by the environments configured within your CI/CD pipeline. Uplevel uses an organization wide regular expression (Regex) to find for production environments, but exclude non-production environments. An example is shown below that looks for environments that contain the strings prod|live|release, but excludes pre-prod|pre-release and other variants, as well as explicitly excluding qa and staging environments.
Your organization's global definition is visible by visiting the configuration page and clicking on an environment. Learn more about how to utilize this page here.
See your organization's deployment trend over time. This chart shows the number of successful deployments to production in the date range selected.
💡Tip: the main thing to look for is consistency here. Deploying often benefits teams in keeping practices and procedures smooth and repeatable.
Observe how frequently your teams' deployments are successful across all environments with successful deployments shown in blue, and unsuccessful deployments shown in pink. If there are groups with lower-than-average success rates, then having a conversation about why those deployments are consistently failing may highlight some areas for improvement.
Understand where your teams are deploying changes. This chart shows the top repositories and the percentage of deployments that were attributed to them. The length of the bar shows the fraction of deployments to this repository out of all deployments to production.
