# Driving successful change: Understanding DORA's Change Failure Rate metric

DevFeed: [Driving successful change: Understanding DORA's Change Failure Rate metric](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/driving-successful-change-understanding-dora-s-change-failure-rate-metric-11763.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/dora-metrics-change-failure-rate>)

Author: Luis Gonzalez

Published: 2023-07-05T13:29:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The incident.io Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-incident-io-blog.md>)

Topics: [dora metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dora-metrics.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [DevOps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/devops.md>), [site-reliability-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/site-reliability-engineering.md>)

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## AI overview

This article explains DORA's Change Failure Rate metric, which measures the percentage of changes that result in incidents or service disruptions. It discusses how the metric can reveal inefficiencies across development, testing, and deployment, and offers benchmarks and practical guidance for improving successful change delivery and incident response.

## Source excerpt

By using DORA's change failure rate metric, organizations can highlight inefficiencies in deployment processes and prevent pesky incidents from repeating.