The Ultimate Guide to Measure DevOps Success

PeerXP Team
PeerXP Technologies
2 min readMay 8, 2019

Imagine you have successfully implemented DevOps in your organization and now after six months, you are ready to reap the results. How can you measure DevOps success and see how far its implementation has brought the desired results?

First of all, let’s understand why measuring DevOps success is necessary.

Importance of Measuring the DevOps Success

In today’s era of end-to-end DevOps, you need to measure the key performance indicators (KPIs) to demonstrate success and drive further transformation. DevOps is a journey that requires continuous rectification. But if you are not measuring the results regularly then it will be very difficult to expand DevOps implementation in the complete organization. Measuring DevOps success is important because it targets the processes that determine how IT works. Every organization must ensure that DevOps initiatives deliver the desired results. Decisions based on data results in increased quality and efficiency.

Metrics are essential to the organization’s DevOps journey. But how do you measure DevOps success? What marks a high-performing organization? Which KPIs can tell you what’s working and what’s not? What do you measure, how do you measure it, and what do the numbers really say?

Types of DevOps metrics

Let’s begin with the metrics to keep into account when measuring DevOps success.

Deployment size

Instead of deploying a very major change at once it is advisable to do deployments in smaller chunks so that it gets easy to find bugs and do testing. Considering so many developers working on a single project and each one’s changes is going to have an impact on the system and can conflict with the changes made by another developer. In this case, it gets really very difficult to figure out which part is responsible for breaking the system. That’s why it is advisable to do smaller changes so that everything can be kept under control.

Click below to read more about each metrics in detail…

Conclusion

DevOps is a journey, which doesn’t show the results overnight. Its implementation requires a commitment and is not a one-man show. Both the dev and ops teams need to collaborate and bring this cultural change within the organization. We are sure that our list of DevOps metrics and tools will give you clarity for measuring DevOps success.

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PeerXP Team
PeerXP Technologies

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