How to build a PowerBI report for Octopus Deploy

Jeff Taylor shares his experience using PowerBI Desktop to analyze data from Octopus Deploy, highlighting the time and cost savings that automation has brought to his company. The detailed analysis includes various charts and reports on deployment history, runbook executions, and potential development issues, such as skipped releases due to undetected bugs. Taylor provides templates for these reports, compatible with both Octopus Cloud and self-hosted versions, to help others replicate his findings. Over five years, automation reduced deployment time from an estimated 3,572 hours manually to just 53.5 hours, saving the company approximately $285,760 in labor costs. Taylor encourages readers to explore their own data and contribute ideas for further reports, aiming to enhance the understanding and justification of automation benefits in DevOps environments.