Investigate create_merge_request User Experience SLI budget

The Covered Experience SLI (soon to be renamed to User Experience SLI) create_merge_request is underperforming according to metrics and the threshold definition:

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Dashboard

Timeframe: Oct 1st to 29th.

The current target duration defined for create_merge_request is async_fast, which translates to 15 seconds expected completion.

Evaluate:

  1. Is the current threshold aligned with the expected performance of this feature?
  2. What are the root cause(s) for this performance? What could be done to improve?
Edited by Hercules Merscher