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Enter your change failure rate — failed deployments divided by total deployments, as a percentage — to see where it lands against the cited DORA stability benchmarks.
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Change failure rate is one of the four DORA metrics and the key stability signal. Bands approximate the performance clusters in the Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2023 (Google Cloud / DORA). Want all four metrics at once? Use the full DORA metrics calculator.
Frequently asked questions
- What is change failure rate?
- Change failure rate (CFR) is the share of deployments to production that cause a failure needing remediation — a hotfix, rollback, or patch. Compute it as failed deployments divided by total deployments, as a percentage.
- How do I calculate change failure rate?
- Divide the number of deployments that caused a failure by the total number of deployments over the same period, then multiply by 100. For example, 3 failures out of 60 deploys is 5%.
- What is a good change failure rate?
- Against the Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2023 clusters, roughly 5% or lower maps to Elite, 6–10% to High, 11–15% to Medium, and above 15% to Low.
- How do I lower change failure rate?
- Smaller, more frequent changes; stronger automated tests and CI gates; progressive delivery (canary / feature flags); and fast, rehearsed rollback. Each reduces the blast radius of a bad change.