Linear Insights now includes burn-up charts (cumulative flow diagrams) that visualize how streams of work change over time, allowing teams to analyze historical issue data and detect patterns. You can segment by status, team, or other dimensions to understand bug velocity, effort allocation, and scope changes across custom time windows.
Burn-up charts
Linear Insights now includes burn-up charts, or cumulative flow diagrams, that show how streams of work have changed over time. Unlike other Insights, burn-up charts display your historical issue data so that you can analyze and detect patterns across specific time windows.
For example, you can create a burn-up chart to investigate how well you’ve been managing bugs over time.
In this snapshot, we are looking at issues with the label Bug across all engineering teams. You can see the overall bug growth by looking at the top level issue count. By segmenting by Status type, you can compare the ratio of closed to open bugs and see if you are fixing bugs faster than you are creating them. Look for spots where bugs get stuck in Triage or another workflow step.
Apply different segments to your burn-up chart to explore:
How effort has been allocated across teams
Changes in the type of work your team has focused on
If your backlog is under control
How scope has increased in a specific project
By default, burn-up charts show data in monthly increments. Adjust Insights settings to plot the data week over week, include archived issues, or to expand the view to fullscreen. Burn-up charts based on large data sets can take a bit longer to generate. We are working on performance improvements to get them to the same speed that you are used to from other Linear features.
Insights is now out of beta and available to all Plus plan customers. Learn more about the feature and sign up to a free 30-day trial to try Insights and see if it is right for your team.
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