# Hotfix Configurations

In Hotfix configurations section you can specify the aspects of your SCM or project management tool based on which PRs should be considered for hotfix.

These configurations majorly affect the calculations of Change Failure Rate and MTTR.

#### Pull Request Pattern

You can specify some patterns based on which PRs will be classified as hotfixes. These patterns can be enabled to be identified in any of the attributes such as PR labels, titles, descriptions, branches, tags.

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#### Work Item Types

You can specify work item types that represent hotfixes. The PRs associated with these work items will be considered as hotfixes.

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#### Patch version pattern

Any merged Pull Requests (PRs) with a PR title, Source branch, or PR tags containing a version number in the format x.y.z (where z > 0) can be identified as a hotfix. [<mark style="color:purple;">Learn more about it</mark>](/configurations/hotfix-configurations/track-hotfixes-via-patch-version-pattern.md).


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