# Measure your reliability risk, not your engineers

DevFeed: [Measure your reliability risk, not your engineers](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/measure-your-reliability-risk-not-your-engineers-11669.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.gremlin.com/blog/measure-your-reliability-risk-not-your-engineers>)

Author: Gavin Cahill

Published: 2025-07-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Gremlin Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/gremlin-blog.md>)

Topics: [Resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/resilience.md>), [site-reliability-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/site-reliability-engineering.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [gremlin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gremlin.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [reliability-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reliability-management.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>), [reviews](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reviews.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that organizations should measure system reliability risk rather than rely on engineer skill or QA testing. It presents resilience testing and Reliability Scores as ways to track current risk, identify failures, and support regular improvement.

## Source excerpt

Reliability metrics should uncover risks and enable your teams to improve reliability, not create defensiveness and blame games.