The top DevOps tooling metrics and targets at GitLab

This post introduces and details seven key DevOps metrics used at GitLab to measure engineering efficiency and productivity: master pipeline stability (target >95%), review app deployment success rate (target >99%), time to first failure (target <15 minutes), open S1 bug age (target <100 days), open S2 bug age (target <300 days), merge request pipeline duration (target <45 minutes), and MR pipeline costs (target <7.50). It explains the rationale behind each metric and its target, providing a concrete set of performance indicators for the engineering team.