For DevOps, Choosing Metrics is a Fool’s Errand
Hey, DevOps - guess what - your success is predicated on you picking the right metrics to measure. UP FRONT!!!
That’s the gist of the recent article from DevOps.com expert Matt Dickens when he says that
“teams must choose the right metrics at the right time to identify their opportunities for improvement.” It’s not just the team though as he concludes that “the right metric empowers a team to ... demonstrate the value of their work to their leadership.”
No Pressure!!! Just the success / failure of your organization.
It’s difficult enough for an IT Ops team to figure out what to monitor inside a simple monolithic application - it’s impossible to think that they can look at the thousands of components, hundreds of thousands of interactions and potentially millions of pieces of data to come up with “the right ones!”
That’s why you shouldn’t TRY to pick the right metrics -- AUTOMATE that step of the process.
Everything else in DevOps is automated, so that should be, too. Here’s a cool read on why automation helps make DevOps teams perform better.
Entrepreneur, Observability Strategist helping companies optimize their use of technology
2yHere's another reason to automate metric selection: Selecting metrics is an imperfect science, made less so by the fact that Ops / DevOps team members don't have the detailed knowledge of application inner workings - needed to understand which metrics are tied to the business success of applications.
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2yGreat insights Alan Torres. I find that most companies have a hard time connecting product changes to business impact. Understanding metrics is key.