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9 key DevOps metrics for success

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The emerging concepts of working with DevOps metrics and DevOps KPIs have really come a long way. DevOps metrics to help you meet your DevOps goals. Like any IT or business project, you’ll need to track critical key metrics. Here are nine key DevOps metrics and DevOps KPIs that will help you be successful.

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

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As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. The following three metrics are commonly used to measure success: Service-level agreements (SLAs). These metrics are the factors and service levels that must be achieved for each activity, function, and process to deliver on the SLA.

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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

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By implementing service-level objectives, teams can avoid collecting and checking a huge amount of metrics for each service. According to Google’s SRE handbook , best practices, there are “ Four Golden Signals ” we can convert into four SLOs for services: reliability, latency, availability, and saturation.

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Lessons learned from enterprise service-level objective management

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This greatly reduced the number of metrics to manage and provided a more comprehensive picture of what was behind their primary reliability service-level objective. The metrics behind the four signals vary by row. In this case, the customer offers a managed service that runs on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google.

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Maximize user experience with out-of-the-box service-performance SLOs

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According to the Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) handbook, monitoring the four golden signals is crucial in delivering high-performing software solutions. While this connection might sound simple, finding the right metrics to measure the needed SLIs takes time and effort.

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Tutorial: Guide to automated SRE-driven performance engineering

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While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process. This allows us to analyze metrics (SLIs) for each individual endpoint URL.

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Smashing Podcast Episode 42 With Jeff Smith: What Is DevOps?

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Not everyone is Google. Stop reading posts from Netflix and Google. And that sort of segues into the metrics portion of cams, right, is what are the things that we are tracking in our systems to know that they are operating efficiently? And that’s where the entire metrics portion of the conversation comes in.

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