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The top 10 DevOps metrics you should know about
Jeff Keyes , VP of Product at Plutora , offers 10 metrics to give you a foundation to measure DevOps that will help your business to flourish and allow you to operate with an optimised DevOps architecture .
DevOps links the development and operational sides of software delivery , however , it is often considered tricky to benchmark its success . Here are the 10 performance indicators – known as metrics – that every DevOps team can use to gauge the effectiveness of their approach .
1 . Application availability
Users need to have uninterrupted access to your application 24 / 7 , unless you ’ ve warned them in advance that scheduled maintenance is due . Measuring availability is a simple metric to boost resources towards maintaining an application . After deployment takes place , an application ’ s availability can drop .
The DevOps team should be able to follow logs and rollback changes to its last most available version , however , businesses that deploy their applications thousands of times on a daily basis will argue this is harder than it sounds . To measure availability , an orchestration tool like Kubernetes or Jenkins can be useful .
2 . Traffic and application usage
The next focus is monitoring an application ’ s traffic and usage . If your application experiences high demand , it could struggle under the pressure . An intuitive log analyser can notify developers whenever that breaking point is near .
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