The State of Operations Health in the World of DevOps

PagerDuty emphasizes utilizing real-time human data to assess employee health, leveraging their platform for IT operations orchestration to improve efficiency and operational maturity through the Operations Health Management Service. This service quantifies operator health, systemic efficiency, and operational maturity with scores from 0 to 100, providing insights into on-call workloads and their impact on teams, thereby helping managers preemptively address employee health issues to prevent attrition. Aligning with findings from the DORA "State of DevOps" report, PagerDuty recognizes that while high, medium, and low performance levels exist across industries, operational health varies significantly, influencing employee retention. A key finding from PagerDuty's attrition study of 50,000 responders shows that unplanned work significantly affects attrition rates, with extreme on-call pain leading to higher turnover. The DORA report stresses that continuous improvement in operations through DevOps practices is essential, requiring an embedded company culture and strong executive sponsorship. PagerDuty aims to enhance operations through their digital platform, data analysis, and expert guidance.