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diff --git a/doc/user/analytics/value_stream_analytics.md b/doc/user/analytics/value_stream_analytics.md index 6c41d93d51f..2af98492ee7 100644 --- a/doc/user/analytics/value_stream_analytics.md +++ b/doc/user/analytics/value_stream_analytics.md @@ -58,19 +58,13 @@ GitLab provides the ability to filter analytics based on a date range. To filter The "Time" metrics near the top of the page are measured as follows: - **Lead time**: median time from issue created to issue closed. -- **Cycle time**: median time from first commit to issue closed. - -NOTE: -A commit is associated with an issue by [crosslinking](../project/issues/crosslinking_issues.md) in the commit message or by manually linking the merge request containing the commit. +- **Cycle time**: median time from first commit to issue closed. (You can associate a commit with an issue by [crosslinking in the commit message](../project/issues/crosslinking_issues.md#from-commit-messages).) ## How the stages are measured -Value Stream Analytics records stage time and data based on the project issues with the -exception of the staging stage, where only data deployed to -production are measured. - -Specifically, if your CI is not set up and you have not defined a [production environment](#how-the-production-environment-is-identified), then you will not have any -data for this stage. +Value Stream Analytics uses start events and stop events to measure the time that an Issue or MR spends in each stage. +For example, a stage might start when one label is added to an issue, and end when another label is added. +Items are not included in the stage time calculation if they have not reached the stop event. Each stage of Value Stream Analytics is further described in the table below. @@ -103,14 +97,8 @@ In short, the Value Stream Analytics dashboard tracks data related to [GitLab fl ## How the production environment is identified -Value Stream Analytics identifies production environments by looking for project [environments](../../ci/yaml/README.md#environment) with a name matching any of these patterns: - -- `prod` or `prod/*` -- `production` or `production/*` - -These patterns are not case-sensitive. - -You can change the name of a project environment in your GitLab CI/CD configuration. +Value Stream Analytics identifies production environments based on +[the deployment tier of environments](../../ci/environments/index.md#deployment-tier-of-environments). ## Example workflow |