CircleCI's 2024 State of Software Delivery report presents key benchmarks for assessing DevOps success, drawing from 14 million data points collected from over 22,000 organizations. The report identifies four critical metrics for high-performing engineering teams: Duration, Mean Time to Recovery, Throughput, and Success Rate. Duration, the most vital metric, measures the time taken for a workflow to complete and emphasizes the need for a fast feedback cycle. Mean Time to Recovery focuses on the speed of resolving failures, indicating the robustness of test coverage. Throughput tracks the frequency of workflow runs, reflecting the balance between small, manageable code changes and significant updates. The Success Rate evaluates the proportion of successful runs, especially important on default branches to maintain stability. The report suggests that while ideal numbers are not universally applicable, establishing and improving baseline metrics is crucial for enhancing software delivery performance.