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Your guide to connecting Git, Slack, and your project management platform.

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Connecting Git

How to connect Git to LinearB
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Connecting Project Management Tools

Connecting LinearB to Jira or Clubhouse

A simple icon of a bookmark with a star near the bottom to represent a featured article A simple ribbon icon. It has a slightly rounded border and a star at the bottom of it. ​ 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…

A simple icon of a bookmark with a star near the bottom to represent a featured article A simple ribbon icon. It has a slightly rounded border and a star at the bottom of it. ​ 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…

A simple icon of a bookmark with a star near the bottom to represent a featured article A simple ribbon icon. It has a slightly rounded border and a star at the bottom of it. ​ LinearB Trial Setup

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

Accessing Team Settings

Your developers are tracked in LinearB via Teams, and Teams can be organized into Groups (a parent team made up of multiple sub-Teams, such as for a business unit). Settings exist at the Company leve…

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…

Configuring SAML SSO with GSuite

To configure SAML Single Sign On (SSO) authentication for your users using GSuite as your identity provider (IDP), you will need: Accessing SSO Config in LinearB and Google. Access to the Google Admi…

Configuring SSO with Okta

This article walks through how to enable LinearB SAML auth using Okta as your IDP. For general SSO information, see this article. Creating the LinearB integration in Okta. Go to your Okta administrat…

Exclude Non Working Days from Cycle Time

Sometimes, development teams are not working, and that is expected. In fact, there are typically two days each week when development teams are not expected to be working. They're called weekends. LinearB can be configured to omit weekend hours from your team and the company's overall cycle time calculation.

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…

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…

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.

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…

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.

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…

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…

How to Generate a LinearB API Token

LinearB can track deploy time based on API calls from your CI/CD system, report incidents to more accurately measure MTTR and CFR, import custom metrics, or export export LinearB data using our Linae…

How to configure SAML SSO with LinearB

Enterprise customers can enable a SAML SSO integration with LinearB. This integration is designed to work with any SAML 2.0 service provider, including Okta, OneLogin, Azure, and GSuite. Though the i…

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…

LinearB Admins - Configuration Refinement Checklist

Hello! You've configured LinearB already, but now that you're ready to really begin working with the application. Here are some quick things to double-check and validate to ensure you have the happie…

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…

LinearB Incident API

LinearB's incident API allows you to send incident data to LinearB in order to capture an accurate CFR and MTTR metric. Incidents can be tracked from any project or incident management tool using thi…

LinearB Team Grouping

LinearB now allows you to group your different teams. Grouping teams allows managers to see group activity across multiple teams. How to add groups. Groups can be created and edited from your company…

Managing Users In LinearB

What is a User? Users are team members who have access to the LinearB application. Based on the permissions and roles granted to these users, they can view, edit, or delete various reports, applicati…

Microsoft Entra (formerly Azure AD) - SSO Configuration

Configuring LinearB to connect with Microsoft Entra SSO consists of 2 main parts: Create and setup Enterprise Application in Microsoft Entra. Setup SSO integration in LinearB. Prerequisites. Microsof…

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…

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.

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,…

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…

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"…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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