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​LinearB Trial Setup

LinearB Trial Setup. This document will walk you through the process of getting your LinearB trial started.

Updated 1 year ago by Boaz Dremer

​How do I enable a real-time connection to LinearB?

Why should I connect real-time alerts? A vast majority of connections made to LinearB are already enabled for real-time communication with your Git repositories. Occasionally LinearB is unable to con…

Updated 3 months ago by Betsy Rogers

​LinearB Configuration Best Practices

Welcome to LinearB! We're excited you're here. Below is a list of helpful steps you can take to fully configure your LinearB account. Add more repositories to LinearB. Click here to go to your Linear…

Updated 4 months ago by Betsy Rogers

Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions. Q: What is LinearB? A: LinearB helps dev managers to measure and improve delivery and quality of development processes. LinearB provides real-time information about the de…

Updated 11 months ago by Boaz Dremer

Set up your Git release detection method

Set up release detection method. LinearB uses 3 different methods to detect releases of code, tags, PRs to a dedicated branch, and merges to a dedicated branch.

Updated 1 month ago by Boaz Dremer

Managing Users In LinearB

Inviting a User to LinearB. In order to invite additional users to your LinearB account follow the next steps: Go to Account Settings --> Users. Click on " Invite New User ". Fill out the invitation…

Updated 1 month ago by Eran Shitrit

How do I merge contributor accounts?

When multiple Git orgs or connections are linked to one LinearB account, it's not uncommon to see a developer contributing code under multiple git accounts, email addresses, or usernames. LinearB ini…

Updated 4 months ago by Betsy Rogers

Upgrade LinearB Slack application version

Upgrade LinearB Slack application version. LinearB offers a new and upgraded Slack application that supports exciting new capabilities such as personal alerts about pull requests and reviews status,…

Updated 1 year ago by Boaz Dremer

Daily Workflows

Daily Workflows. This document will walk you through how to utilize LinearB in your daily workflow. 1) Identify Unreviewed Pull Requests: Identify pull requests that have been merged without review.…

Updated 3 years ago by Boaz Dremer

How do I exclude branches from my dashboards?

How To Edit Global Exclusions. To review and edit your excluded branches, go to Company Settings > Advanced tab. Scroll down to the "Exclude Branches" section. Using regular expressions, you can add…

Updated 4 months ago by Betsy Rogers

How do I remove a repo from LinearB?

You can remove repos by going to Company Settings > Git > and unchecking the repo you would like to remove. When a repo is removed, we will no longer collect any information about this repo, historic…

Updated 4 months ago by Betsy Rogers

Changing your metrics from average to median or percentile

In some places, primarily in your metrics reports, LinearB will calculate your metrics based on either the average, median, or percentile of the data collected. LinearB's research indicates that grap…

Updated 23 hours ago by Betsy Rogers

How to configure SAML SSO with LinearB

Enterprise customers can enable a SAML SSO integration with LinearB. This integration is designed to work with SAML 2.0 service providers, including Okta and OneLogin. How to enable SSO. Glossary : I…

Updated 1 week ago by Betsy Rogers

How to Generate a Release API Token

Paid subscriptions of LinearB can track deploy time based on API calls from your CI/CD system. Use the instructions below to generate a release API token. Before you generate a token:. Make sure to f…

Updated 4 months ago by Betsy Rogers

How do I manage the number of contributors in my account?

The account page helps you manage the number of LinearB team contributors active in your account.

Updated 6 months ago by Boaz Dremer

What is included in my Notifications Center?

LinearB provides users with a 'home' for system notifications. All system notifications are located in the same place, and you are able to control/dismiss notifications after consuming them. The notification center will be available on the top right corner of your screen.

Updated 4 months ago by Betsy Rogers

What are Goals?

Team Goals. LinearB Goals help you to track your improvement over time and notify your team of potential issues. You can customize each goal and your team can be notified via Slack or Microsoft Teams…

Updated 4 months ago by Eran Shitrit

What is CFR?

CFR - Change Failure Rate. CFR is a metric that represents the percentage of deployments causing a failure in production. LinearB calculates this metric based on the number of "production incidents"…

Updated 4 months ago by Eran Shitrit

JIRA-based Coding Time

JIRA-based Coding Time. By default, LinearB will calculate Coding Time as the time between when the first commit has been made on a branch to when a PR is submitted. This feature enables customers to…

Updated 4 months ago by Eran Shitrit

Service Metrics

Multiple code branches or repositories can be combined into services within LinearB. This will be very helpful in reporting if your team is working on a mono-repo or working on projects that span mul…

Updated 4 months ago by Betsy Rogers

Favoriting Project Delivery Trackers

You can now favorite the Project Delivery Trackers that are relevant to you! Click on the icon next to any Project Delivery Tracker to favorite the tracker. Your favorites will be the default view wh…

Updated 3 months ago by Betsy Rogers

Where can I find my billing and invoice information?

LinearB billing and invoice questions can be directed to accounting@linearb.io. You can fill out the below form to request invoice and billing changes.

Updated 1 year ago by Betsy Rogers

What is a Daily Digest?

A daily digest notifies a Slack channel daily about your most active story, stuck work, and pull requests with a lot of discussion. These can be configured for your specific teams, and sent daily via…

Updated 4 months ago by Betsy Rogers

How do I add more repos to LinearB?

You can add additional repos to LinearB at anytime. We recommend adding as many repos as possible in order to get a better view of your team activity.

Updated 4 months ago by Betsy Rogers

What is MTTR?

MTTR - Mean Time To Restore. MTTR is a metric that represents the average time it takes to restore from a failure of the system or one of its components. LinearB calculates this metric based on the t…

Updated 2 months ago by Betsy Rogers

LinearB Deployment API

LinearB's delivery API enables enterprise customers to customize their deploy-time measurement to detect code deployments via an API call. This can also be customized to account for additional pre-de…

Updated 2 months ago by Betsy Rogers

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