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Productivity analytics

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You can use productivity analytics to identify:

  • Your development velocity based on how long it takes for a merge request to merge.
  • The most time consuming merge requests and potential causes.
  • Authors, labels, or milestones with the longest time to merge, or most changes.

Use productivity analytics to view the following merge request statistics for your groups:

  • Amount of time between merge request creation and merge.
  • Amount of time between commits, comments, and merge.
  • Complexity of changes, like number of lines of code per commit and number of files.

To view merge request data for projects, use Merge request analytics.

View productivity analytics

Prerequisites:

  • You must have at least the Reporter role for the group.
  1. On the left sidebar, select Search or go to and find your group.
  2. Select Analyze > Productivity analytics.
  3. Optional. Filter results:
    1. From the Projects dropdown list, select a project.
    2. To filter results by author, milestone, or label, select Filter results and enter a value.
    3. To adjust the date range:
      • In the From field, select a start date.
      • In the To field, select an end date.

View time metrics for merge requests

To view time metrics for merge requests:

  1. On the left sidebar, select Search or go to and find your group.
  2. Select Analyze > Productivity analytics. Time metrics are displayed on the following charts:
    • Time to merge: number of days it took for a merge requests to merge after they were created.
    • Trendline: number of merge requests that were merged in a specific time period.
  3. Optional. Filter the results:
    • To filter the Trendline chart, in the Time to merge chart, select a bar.
    • To view a specific merge request, below the charts, from the List table select a merge request.

View commit statistics

To view commit statistics for your group:

  1. On the left sidebar, select Search or go to and find your group.
  2. Select Analyze > Productivity analytics. Commit statistics are displayed under the Trendline scatterplot:
    • The left histogram shows the number of hours between commits, comments, and merges.
    • The right histogram shows the number of commits and changes per merge request.
  3. Optional. Filter results:
    • To view different types of commit data, from the dropdown list next to each histogram, select an option.
    • To view a specific merge request, below the charts, from the List table select a merge request.