As systems become more distributed and AI-driven, traditional uptime metrics are no longer enough. The 2026 SRE Report shows how reliability is shifting toward user experience, speed, and business impact, and how AI is reshaping monitoring, incident response, and the role of SRE and DevOps leaders.
Survey Surfaces Disconnect Between DevOps Metrics and Business KPIs
A survey of 418 DevOps professionals finds that while DevOps teams closely monitor and observe the performance of applications, not nearly as many are able to correlate the value of those efforts to the business. Conducted by Catchpoint, a unit of LogicMonitor, the survey finds more than two-thirds (67%) believe application degradations are either always […]
Why Up to 70% of SRE Initiatives Stall Before They Scale — and How to Break the Plateau
Many SRE initiatives stall because organizations adopt the title without the principles. True SRE success requires leadership vision, cultural change, shared KPIs and continuous maturity measurement—not tools alone.
Unlocking Better DevEx: Four Areas to Improve and KPIs
No matter how comprehensive a plan to improve DevEx is, there is still no silver bullet. But these focus areas and KPIs will provide structure to your approach.
Survey Surfaces Lots of Software Supply Chain Insecurity
A global survey of 900 application security professionals finds nearly two-thirds work for organizations that have had their software supply chains compromised in the past two years.
GitLab Strengthens Remote DevOps Management
GitLab this week moved to provide remote developers with access to a more secure continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform while at the same time adding a dashboard that makes it simpler to track the overall status of application development projects. David DeSanto, chief product officer for GitLab, said GitLab Remote Development takes advantage of an […]
Best of 2021 – Nine Pillars of DevOps Best Practices
As we close out 2021, we at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the fourteenth in our series of the Best of 2021. In a prior blog I explained my 27-factor DevOps assessment model which includes nine pillars of DevOps and three dimensions of people, process and technology. […]
Allstacks Adds Free Dashboard to Track Software Dev Benchmarks
Value stream intelligence platform provider Allstacks today added a free live dashboard populated with anonymized data that DevOps teams can use to benchmark their own progress. Hersh Tapadia, Allstacks co-founder and CEO, said the company is making this data available to make it easier for DevOps teams to uncover bottlenecks in their software development processes. […]
How to Optimize Data in Software Development
Data can drive significant business value for every company. Globally, we are collecting more of it than ever before, and it keeps growing—from 45 zettabytes in 2019 to a projected 175 zettabytes by 2025, according to IDC. However, companies are struggling to monetize all the personal, behavioral, engagement and transactional data from customers and operations […]
CircleCI CEO Sees Growing Need for Developer Experience Engineers
There is no shortage of titles to go with all the tasks that make up a DevOps workflow, but given the critical role developers now play within any organization, it might be time for organizations to start creating a developer experience engineer (DXE) function within DevOps teams that is specifically tasked with increasing developer productivity. […]