I have been looking into gathering some useful DevOps metrics for projects in our self-hosted GitLab instance. I came across a blog post by GitLab, The top DevOps tooling metrics and targets at GitLab | GitLab, which goes over some of the metrics that I thought would be perfect to track.
I have been trying to comb through GitLab’s handbook and linked GitLab issues within the handbooks, but I couldn’t really understand how the metrics were obtained and tracked. I was wondering if people knew how metrics like the ones listed were obtained from a GitLab instance.
Metrics covered in the blog that I’m particularly interested in:
- Master pipeline stability
- Time to First Failure
- Merge request pipeline duration
- MR pipeline costs
I didn’t find any documentation on how these metrics could be obtained with out-of-the-box features. I’m assuming there’s custom scripts or tools used for gathering them, and I’m hoping people can point me in the right direction for how it can be done.
Thanks