docs: add the Delivery Insights platform engineer guide - #846
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Delivery Insights reports the four DORA metrics for the components OpenChoreo deploys, and is off by default. Nothing documented how to turn it on, what it requires from an install, or how the numbers are arrived at. Adds a platform engineer guide covering: - what the metrics are and where each is derived from, and the three surfaces that read the same computation (portal page, Observer REST API, MCP tool) - the path from a rollout to a metric: lifecycle events, the existing event pipeline, the aggregator, durable facts - prerequisites, including that the aggregator needs a logging module whose events API supports reason-filtered unscoped queries, and what an install on another module gets without it - enabling it through chart values, and why the chart refuses more than one Observer replica while aggregation is on -- the aggregator has no leader election, so a second replica can overwrite another's resume position and silently skip events - storage, including the shared SQLite file and its busy timeout - the insights:view grant and why it is evaluated to component scope - commit provenance for lead time: automatic under native CI, one field under external CI, and unavailable rather than wrong without it - verification steps, and the computation behaviours worth knowing before reading a dashboard -- notably that headline totals are exact while the chart is bucketed, so summing the visible bars need not equal the headline Registers the page under the existing Observability category and widens that category's description, which named only alerting. The Helm values reference is generated from the charts by scripts/generate-helm-docs.js, so it is deliberately untouched here: it picks up the INSIGHTS_* values on its next run once the chart change lands. Draft until the implementation merges. Verified with `npm run build` -- no errors and no broken links. Signed-off-by: LakshanSS <lakshan230897@gmail.com>
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WalkthroughThe PR adds a Platform Engineer Guide page for Delivery Insights. It documents DORA metric derivation, event aggregation, configuration, storage, authorization, commit provenance, verification, limitations, and sidebar navigation. ChangesDelivery Insights documentation
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The new Delivery Insights guide may mislead users about MTTR results because it labels percentile-only reporting as a mean. Clarify the reported statistic or rename the metric before publishing. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@docs/platform-engineer-guide/delivery-insights.mdx`:
- Around line 210-212: Update the delivery insights documentation so Mean Time
to Recovery includes a mean in its reported results alongside p50, p75, and p95,
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Report a mean for Mean Time to Recovery.
Line 210 calls this metric “Mean Time to Recovery,” but lines 210-212 specify only p50, p75, and p95 values. Percentiles do not provide a mean. Add the mean to the result, or rename the metric consistently across the page and API documentation.
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In `@docs/platform-engineer-guide/delivery-insights.mdx` around lines 210 - 212,
Update the delivery insights documentation so Mean Time to Recovery includes a
mean in its reported results alongside p50, p75, and p95, or consistently rename
it wherever it is described as “Mean Time to Recovery,” including the API
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The delivery markers and event emission moved from RenderedRelease to ReleaseBinding in openchoreo/openchoreo#4614, so the guide named a controller that no longer emits anything. Signed-off-by: LakshanSS <lakshan230897@gmail.com>
Tracks openchoreo/openchoreo#4660: the chart key is `observer.deliveryInsights` and the read action is `deliveryinsights:view`, both named specifically because cost insights already answers to `finops:view` and a bare `insights` would read as covering it. Signed-off-by: LakshanSS <lakshan230897@gmail.com>
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Summary
Adds a platform engineer guide for Delivery Insights — the four DORA metrics
(Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Change Failure Rate, Mean Time to
Recovery) that OpenChoreo reports for the components it deploys.
The feature is off by default and nothing currently documents how to turn it on, what it
requires from an install, or how the numbers are arrived at.
Draft until the implementation merges — see the tracking section below.
What the page covers
query_dora_metricsMCP tool)insights:viewgrant, and why it is evaluated down to component scopekubectl get eventsfor the emitted events, then a read-API call, with the note that a first run reads zero until the aggregator ticksThe section I would most like reviewed
"How the numbers are computed." One item there is user-visible and will otherwise
generate support questions: headline totals are exact while the chart is bucketed, so
at weekly or monthly granularity the edge buckets extend past the window and summing
the visible bars need not equal the headline. That is intentional, but it looks like a
bug unless it is written down.
What this deliberately does not touch
docs/reference/helm/observability-plane.mdxis generated from the charts byscripts/generate-helm-docs.js, so hand-editing it would be overwritten. It picks upthe
INSIGHTS_*values on its next run once the chart change lands. The guide links toit for the full value list rather than duplicating the table.
Tracking
Depends on the implementation, currently split across:
INSIGHTS_*chart values andinsights:viewaction this page documentsReady to un-draft once those land. A couple of details may need a pass then — in
particular the logging-module support list, if more than OpenSearch has landed by
release.
Testing
npm run build— succeeds, no errors and no broken linksnpx prettier --writeon both changed filesdescription named only alerting, so it is widened to cover delivery metrics
docs/(the unversioned "next" docs) rather than aversioned_docsdirectory, since the feature has not shipped in a released version