GitHub Copilot usage metrics

See detailed GitHub Copilot usage patterns acros teams, editors, and programing languages

Available at Insights / AI assitants / GitHub Copilot

If you're looking for a productivity boost from GitHub Copilot, it's not enough to enable the tool for your teams and then forget it. People need to pick up the new habit and invest the time to learn how to use it effectively. To support that, you need proper visibility into the current usage patterns.

With the GitHub Copilot usage breakdown, you can:

• Understand where Copilot is gaining traction and where extra support may be needed.

• Know if people are just trying it out or actively relying on it in their work.

• Notice patterns in how suggestions are used across editors and programming languages.

Read more in our full guide:

Measure the productivity impact of AI tools

To track GitHub Copilot adoption and licenses, see:

AI adoption metrics

Setup

Enabling GitHub Copilot metrics:

AI coding tools

Definitions

• Active users = Users who received a suggestion (even if they didn't accept it) in their IDE or chatted with Copilot on a given day. Users must have telemetry enabled in their IDE for their activity to be included. Read more

• Engaged users = Users who engaged with Copilot (accepted a code suggestion, prompted Copilot chat, triggered a PR Summary, etc) on a given day.

• Code suggestions = The number of Copilot code suggestions

• Code acceptances = The number of Copilot code suggestions accepted by users

• Acceptance rate (suggestions) = Code acceptances / Code suggestions

• Lines suggested = The number of lines of code suggested by Copilot

• Lines accepted = The number of lines of code suggested by Copilot and accepted by users

• Acceptance rate (lines) = Lines suggested / Lines accepted

Frequently asked questions

Why does the team selector have different teams than the ones I have configured in Swarmia?

GitHub reports Copilot usage only based on the GitHub teams in your organization. You can configure the team memberships in GitHub. We recommend setting up your Swarmia teams based on your GitHub teams, so that they're a one-to-one match.

Why is some/all of the data missing for the selected team?

GitHub reports Copilot usage only for days when the organization had at least 5 users with an active license. Try selecting a larger team or another timeframe.