# What's the ROI of reliability?

DevFeed: [What's the ROI of reliability?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-s-the-roi-of-reliability-11738.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.gremlin.com/blog/whats-the-roi-of-reliability>)

Author: Gavin Cahill

Published: 2025-01-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Chaos Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chaos-engineering.md>), [Availability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/availability.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [Instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/instrumentation.md>), [Tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tooling.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/availability.md>), [chaos-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chaos-engineering.md>), [cost-of-downtime](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost-of-downtime.md>), [instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/instrumentation.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [outages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outages.md>), [reduce](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reduce.md>), [tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tooling.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how to calculate the return on investment of reliability and Chaos Engineering programs. It frames the Amount Gained as losses reduced by improved reliability and the Amount Spent as the salaries, tools, and resources required, with availability and downtime used to illustrate the potential business impact.

## Source excerpt

Learn how to compute the ROI of a reliability or Chaos Engineering program, including how to quantify the positive impact your efforts created for the company.