Welcome
Learning
Learn how to complete tasks in HCL™ Accelerate.
Implementing custom metrics
In this tutorial, you create a custom metric definition and use it to provide data to HCL™ Accelerate.

Welcome
Welcome to the HCL™ Accelerate version 2.0.x documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use HCL Accelerate.
Release information
This document contains information about what's new, bug fixes, known issues, and upgrade notes.
Getting started
This document provides an overview of HCL™ Accelerate.
High-level overview
Use HCL™ Accelerate to automate your release lifecycle and manage your DevOps value stream.
Learning
Learn how to complete tasks in HCL™ Accelerate.
- Create a value stream
  In this tutorial, we integrate Jira work items into a value stream and control value stream data with DevOps query language (DQL) queries.
- Linking value stream tools
  In this tutorial, we integrate Git and Jira into a value stream and link them together.
- Implementing custom metrics
  In this tutorial, you create a custom metric definition and use it to provide data to HCL™ Accelerate.
  - Introduction
    In this tutorial, you create a custom metric definition and use it to provide data to HCL™ Accelerate.
  - Configure the tutorial system
    Prepare your system so that you can complete the tutorial.
  - Lesson 1 Defining a custom metric
    Create a metric definition that you will upload to HCL™ Accelerate.
  - Lesson 2 Uploading the metric definition
    Upload the metric definition that you created in the previous lesson.
  - Lesson 3 Creating a metric record
    Create a metric data record and upload it to HCL™ Accelerate.
  - Lesson 4 Adding charts to dashboards
    Add your custom chart to the HCL™ Accelerate dashboard.
  - Summary
    In this tutorial, you learned how to load custom metric data into HCL™ Accelerate.
Installing and upgrading
Migrating
Administering
A default HCL™ Accelerate administrator ID is included as part of HCL Accelerate. It is used to install and complete initial configuration tasks.
Managing value streams
A value stream represents the objects and activities that you employ to deliver customer value, from initial concept to final delivered project.
Developing data insights
The Insights feature provides DevOps metrics for your project data.
Releasing software
A release is a repeatable plan that is used to drive deployments.
Extending product functions
Learn how to extend the function of HCL™ Accelerate
How to
The topics in this section describe how to work with HCL™ Accelerate features. Tutorials and workbooks are available for users of all experience levels.
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Glossary

Implementing custom metrics

In this tutorial, you create a custom metric definition and use it to provide data to HCL™ Accelerate.

Learning objectives

In this tutorial, you learn how to complete these tasks:

Create a metric definition.
Create custom metric records.
Load the metric definition and custom records into HCL™ Accelerate using the curl utility.
Create a dashboard that contains a chart based on the metric definition.
Load our custom data into the chart.