Announcing dora-exporter.dev: A Home for DORA Metrics

I’ve been maintaining dora-exporter for a while now, and it’s finally outgrown a simple README. The project has evolved from a basic Prometheus exporter into a full-scale tool for engineering velocity, and with the new Backstage integration, it was time for a real home.

Today, I’m launching dora-exporter.dev.

Why a separate site?

People usually install dora-exporter to bridge the gap between their Git activity and the “Four Golden Signals” of DevOps. But as the configuration options grew—specifically the split between Static Mode and Backstage Mode—it became harder to explain the value in a single GitHub page.

The new site breaks down the four metrics we track:

• Deployment Frequency
• Lead Time for Changes
• Change Failure Rate
• Time to Restore Service

It also highlights the architecture: how we transform webhooks from GitHub/GitLab into Prometheus metrics that actually mean something to an SRE.

Automated Launch

In true SRE fashion, I didn’t build this site manually. I used my AI assistant (Jax) and OpenClaw to handle the scaffolding, Vercel deployment, and Terraform/Cloudflare DNS updates in under an hour.

It’s a small example of “Harness Engineering”—building the scaffolding so that agents can do the heavy lifting while I focus on the product logic.

Check out the site, and let me know if it helps you get a better handle on your team’s metrics.

Stop tracking. Start engineering.