Measuring DevOps

Once DevOps practices and principles are implemented, the next step is to find out whether these DevOps practices and principles are providing any tangible benefits to the organization. To find the impact of DevOps on delivering changes to customers, appropriate monitoring, audit, and collection of metrics should be developed and deployed. This telemetry should be measured on an ongoing basis. Also, there should be regular baselining of data for effective comparisons in future. After implementing DevOps, the metrics should be captured over a period of time and then compared with the baseline. This comparison of data should uncover intelligence about effectiveness of DevOps in the organization and appropriate corrective measures should be undertaken.

Some of the important metrics that should be tracked are as follows: