Metrics in Home dashboards

Metrics are used to measure and track work for you and your teams. They’re one of the building blocks for creating a chart in Home dashboards.

Atlassian metrics

Metric

Definition

All goals

An unaggregated list of goals

Goal count

Number of goals

Jira metrics

Metric

Definition

All work items

An unaggregated list of work items

Average lead time

The average time in days it took for work items to go to a “Done” status category, starting from when the work items were created.

If a work item transitions in and out of “Done” status category more than once, then the date corresponding to the latest transition into the “Done” status category is used.

Average time in current status

The average time in days that work items have been in their current status

Average work item age

The average time in days since the work items were created

Average work item cycle time

The average time in days that it took for work items to go from an “In progress” status category to a “Done” status category.

If a work item transitions in and out of “In progress” more than once, then the date corresponding to the first transition into “In progress” is used. Additionally, if a work item issue transitions in and out of “Done” more than once, then the date corresponding to the latest transition into “Done” is used.

Total story points

The sum of story points

Total time spent

The time (in days) logged on a work item

Work item count

Number of work items

DevOps metrics

DevOps data will be available around the end of April 2025.

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