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Change fail rate

Delivery metrics · change fail rate, change failure rate

Change fail rate is the share of releases that needed immediate intervention: a rollback or a quick fix (hotfix). It shows how well the checks before production catch mistakes, which is what tests and pre-prod are for.

ideacommitchecksproduserschange fail raterollback or hotfixThe share of releases that needed a rollback or a hotfix

Source: DORA: software delivery metrics

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