Measuring everything is the last major principle that DevOps-driven companies adopt. As Edwards Deming said, you can't improve what you can't measure. DevOps is an ever-evolving process and methodology that feeds off those metrics to assess and improve the overall quality of the product and the team working on it. From a tooling and operating standpoint, the following are some of the metrics most organizations look at:
- How many builds are pushed to production a day
- How often you need to roll back production in your production environment (this is indicated when your testing didn't catch an important issue)
- The percentage of code coverage
- The frequency of alerts resulting in paging the on-call engineers for immediate ...
