# Deployment frequency ## Summary Deployment frequency is one of the DORA metrics. It's the average number of deployments per week, over a given timeframe. It measures a team’s capability to move fast in practical terms: how long it takes to change something in production. In Swarmia, we take the average of this number in a given time period and show the average number of deployments per day as the deployment frequency. ## Example Between Monday and Friday, there were 25 deployments. That gives us a deployment frequency of 25, and an average deployment frequency of 5 deployments per day. ## Why it matters Deployments are what makes work visible to the users, or in other words, what makes it possible for your work to deliver a business impact. According to the authors of Accelerate, elite teams are able to deploy new code on-demand or multiple times per day, and the release frequency of high-performing teams is between once a day and once a week. ## Benchmarks * **Great:** Continuously ( ≥ 10 deployments per week) * **Good:** Daily ( ≥ 5 deployments per week) * **Needs attention:** Less than daily ( < 5 deployments per week) ## How to use it Monitoring your deployment frequency and tracking increases or decreases can help indicate certain issues in your system or process. For example, a low deployment frequency can indicate working with large batches or signal other problems, such as poor deployment infrastructure or lack of reliable automated tests. ## Where to find it You can find deployment frequency (as well as the other DORA metrics) under Infrastructure.