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DORA-style metrics in Confluence

Atlassian's Compass is moving to DX. If you want delivery metrics inside your Confluence pages, GitHub Links for Confluence offers a lightweight, in-context option - live DORA-style metrics rendered directly on any page, next to your narrative, runbooks, or team documentation.

Compass is moving to DX - Atlassian announcement

What is available

Three macros cover the core delivery signals:

Macro

What it measures

PR Cycle Time report

How long PRs take from opened to merged

PR Throughput report

How many PRs your team completes over a period

Review Latency report

How long PRs wait before receiving their first review

These are DORA-style metrics - not a full DORA implementation. Change Failure Rate (CFR) and Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) are not included in v1.

Metrics are always team-level only - never per-developer. The app stores no code or PR data, and reporting is included in your standard subscription with no additional setup beyond your existing GitHub connection.

Who this is for

  • Engineering managers or team leads who tracked delivery signals in Compass and want continuity inside Confluence

  • Teams wanting DORA-style signals on a page alongside their engineering documentation

  • Stakeholders wanting live metrics next to narrative in QBRs, roadmap pages, or team homepages

Set up a basic delivery view

  1. Open or create a Confluence page (e.g. your team homepage or a dedicated metrics page).

  2. Type /PR Throughput and configure with your repositories and date range.

  3. Type /PR Cycle Time with the same scope.

  4. Type /Review Latency with the same scope.

  5. Publish - the macros render live on each page load.

Keep date ranges consistent across macros so the metrics are directly comparable.

Going further


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