“If you can’t measure it you can’t improve it.” – Peter Drucker
The first step to release better software is to measure the performance of your DevOps. Learn the 10 most important DevOps metrics to track and how they can give you crucial insights into efficiency and effectiveness of your software delivery processes and areas for improvement in your DevOps practices.
1. Change Lead Time
Metric: How long it takes a change to move from ideation to availability in production
Value: How long it takes you to deliver value to users
2. Deployment Frequency
Metric: How often changes are deployed to production
Value: How frequently you are delivering value to users
3. Deployment Duration
Metric: How long it takes to deploy a set of changes
Value: Whether you are moving toward a more stable deployment execution
4. Change Volume
Metric: The number of changes that are included in each release to production
Value: Whether you are delivering value to users in small but meaningful increments
5. Change Failure Rate
Metric: How often a change in production fails and must be immediately remedied
Value: Whether you are moving toward a more stable deployment execution
6. Defect Escape Ratio
Metric: The number of defects found in production versus the number of defects found during development
Value: Whether you are moving toward a more stable deployment execution
7. Mean Time to Detection (MTTD)
Metric: The mean of the time required to detect a failure in production
Value: How quickly you can discover and pinpoint issues that affect availability or functionality
8. Mean Time to Recover (MTTR)
Metric: The mean of the time required to recover from a failure in production
Value: How quickly you can resolve issues and restore service
9. Service Availability
Metric: The percentage a service is available during a period of time
Value: How often users, applications, or other services can access a particular service
10. Application Performance
Metric: How an application responds to increases or decreases in user traffic and activity
Value: Whether users consistently have a good experience when using the application
