Monitoring Releases

Monitoring releases is a critical activity for [email protected] practitioners. [email protected] practitioners utilize multiple dashboards to understand the various attributes of a release and how the pipelines can be further optimized for realizing further value.
[email protected] practitioners utilize metrics emitted from sfpowerscripts to track the following attributes of a release
Metric
Description
Service Level Objective (SLO)
SLI
Average Number of Packages in a Release
The average number of packages carried in a release
Smaller the better, strive to keep releases under 10 packages
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Average Time taken for a Release to Prod
The average time taken for a release to production
Should strive for all the release activity including manual step to be completed in less than an hour
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Average Time taken for a Release to Non-Production Environments
The average time taken for a release to non-production environments
Should strive for all the release activity including manual step to be completed in less than an hour
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Time taken for Last Release to prod
The last time taken for a release to prod
Should strive for all the release activity including manual step to be completed in less than an hour
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Time taken for a Release to Each Environment
The average time taken for a release to each non-production environments
Should strive for all the release activity including manual step to be completed in less than an hour
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Number of Releases to Prod
Number of releases in a defined a time period
More the better
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Number of Releases to Non-prod Environments
Number of releases in a defined a time period
More the better
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Number of Failed Releases per Environments
Number of failed releases per environment
Less the better
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Average Number of Work Items/Commits per Release
Number of work items/commits per release
Less the better
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Success Ratio
100 - ( Failed Releases / ( Success Releases + Failed Releases ) ) * 100
Success Ration of Releases
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[email protected] practitioners follow a concept of deployment budget, where a maximum time is set for a release to production. This is an inherent SLO for the team to focus on and the time of deployment should be below this mark. If any deployment exceeds the allocated budget, the team should discuss various approaches and plans to mitigate it.
If a release is retried more than 3 times to an environment due to a failure, the release should be marked as a failed release (even if the release succeeds in the 4th attempt) and the team should do a root cause analysis of the issue and methods to mitigate should be addressed as a priority before attempting the next release.

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