DORA metrics documentation — architecture, tiering, dashboards, and metric references for the pal-e platform
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Documentation-first repo covering how DORA metrics work on the pal-e
platform, which projects we measure (tiered), and how data flows from
the exporter through Prometheus to Grafana.

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DORA Metrics — pal-e Platform

This repo is documentation-first. It exists to house the markdown and mermaid diagrams that explain how DORA metrics work on the pal-e platform, which projects we measure, and why.

No application code lives here. The metrics exporter is pal-e-dora-exporter. Infrastructure (deployment, ServiceMonitor, Grafana dashboard) is managed in pal-e-platform under terraform/modules/monitoring/.

Docs

Doc What it covers
Architecture Data flow from Forgejo/Woodpecker through Prometheus to Grafana. Component diagram.
Metrics Reference Every Prometheus metric the exporter emits, what it measures, and its labels.
Project Tiering Which repos we measure, which we don't, and the tier system for Grafana filtering.
Grafana Dashboard Current dashboard panels, PromQL queries, and planned improvements.
  • Grafana dashboard: grafana.tail5b443a.ts.net > DORA Metrics
  • Prometheus target: dora-exporter.monitoring.svc:8000/metrics
  • Exporter repo: ldraney/pal-e-dora-exporter on Forgejo
  • Terraform: pal-e-platform/terraform/modules/monitoring/main.tf
  • Dashboard JSON: pal-e-platform/terraform/dashboards/dora-dashboard.json
  • pal-e-docs note: dora-framework (the platform axiom)