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title: Reading Allure charts
description: How to keep track of your project status with Allure charts | Visual Insights | Charts for different roles
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# Reading Allure Charts

Allure Report 3 introduces many new chart types that help your team manage your project and provide different types of insights into your test suite: snapshots of current state, trends over time, project health indicators, and performance metrics.

This guide shows where to start with charts depending on what you want to track.

Images: /images/charts/charts-light.png, /images/charts/charts-dark.png

## Insights

**Current state** — Get a snapshot of the latest run:

- The more green on the [Test statuses](/docs/visual-analytics/#test-statuses-chart) and [Severity](/docs/visual-analytics/#severity-chart) charts, the better.
- The less critical the severity values for failed tests, the better: see the [Severity](/docs/visual-analytics/#severity-chart) chart.
- Check the [Testing pyramid](/docs/visual-analytics/#testing-pyramid) to verify your test distribution by layer matches your expectations.

**Trends** — Spot patterns and changes over time:

- Watch for upward trends in problem statuses on the [Status dynamics](/docs/visual-analytics/#status-dynamics) chart.
- Monitor [Status transitions](/docs/visual-analytics/#status-transitions) and [Test base growth](/docs/visual-analytics/#test-base-growth-dynamics) for unexpected spikes.

**Project health** — Identify risk areas and stability issues:

- A deep and extensive [Status age pyramid](/docs/visual-analytics/#status-age-pyramid) indicates persistent issues worth prioritizing.
- The greener the [Success rate distribution](/docs/visual-analytics/#success-rate-distribution), the better.
- Unless tests were rewritten or intentionally deleted, there shouldn't be red on the [Coverage diff map](/docs/visual-analytics/#coverage-diff-map).
- Check [Stability distribution](/docs/visual-analytics/#stability-distribution) charts to find problem areas.
- Review [Problems by environment](/docs/visual-analytics/#problems-distribution-by-environment) to spot environment-specific and feature-specific issues.

**Performance** — Assess test execution efficiency:

- The faster most tests run, the better: see [Durations](/docs/visual-analytics/#durations-histogram) and [Duration dynamics](/docs/visual-analytics/#durations-dynamics).
- Watch for degradation in the speedup coefficient on [Duration dynamics](/docs/visual-analytics/#durations-dynamics).

## Roles

Different team members use Allure charts for different purposes. Here's where each role might start:

- **QA Leads** rely on charts for strategic decisions: prioritizing work ([Success rate distribution](/docs/visual-analytics/#success-rate-distribution), [Status age pyramid](/docs/visual-analytics/#status-age-pyramid)), planning resources ([Test base growth](/docs/visual-analytics/#test-base-growth-dynamics)), and managing risk ([Stability distributions](/docs/visual-analytics/#stability-distribution), [Status dynamics](/docs/visual-analytics/#status-dynamics) and [Status transitions](/docs/visual-analytics/#status-transitions)).

- **Automation Engineers** focus on performance and reliability: identifying optimization targets ([Durations](/docs/visual-analytics/#durations-histogram)), detecting regressions ([Duration dynamics](/docs/visual-analytics/#durations-dynamics)), and cleaning up flaky tests ([Stability distributions](/docs/visual-analytics/#stability-distribution) and [Status transitions](/docs/visual-analytics/#status-transitions)).

- **Manual Testers** use charts to guide their testing efforts: finding high-risk areas ([Success rate distribution](/docs/visual-analytics/#success-rate-distribution)), understanding what changed ([Coverage diff map](/docs/visual-analytics/#coverage-diff-map)), and prioritizing by severity ([Severity chart](/docs/visual-analytics/#severity-chart)).

- **Stakeholders** need high-level quality indicators: overall health ([Status chart](/docs/visual-analytics/#test-statuses-chart)), quality trends ([Status dynamics](/docs/visual-analytics/#status-dynamics)), and test strategy validation ([Testing pyramid](/docs/visual-analytics/#testing-pyramid)).

## What's Next

Allure Report 3 charts are highly configurable. See the [Visual Analytics](/docs/visual-analytics/) document to learn how to customize the charts appearing in your reports.