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SRE/DevOps Toil Measurement & Automation Gap Analysis
Quantifies toil sources, automation maturity, and incident-resolution quality for SRE, platform, and DevOps teams over a 30-day period. Use to benchmark reliability operations and prioritize tooling investments.
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27 questions · ~4 min
Q02
Multiple Choice
What is your primary role?
Q03
Multiple Choice
In the last 30 days, which activities consumed the most of your working time? Select up to 3.
Q04
Multiple Choice
Which tooling do you actively use to manage reliability and reduce toil? Select all that apply.
Q05
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Roughly how many incidents with user impact did your team experience in the last 30 days?
Q06
Long Text
What single tooling change would most reduce toil for your team?
Q07
Multiple Choice
How many years have you worked in this type of role?
Q08
Long Text
Thank you for completing this survey. Your input helps us track toil patterns and prioritize the right reliability tooling investments. Results will be shared in aggregate only.
Q09
Multiple Choice
How often do you take on-call rotations?
Q10
Long Text
In the last 30 days, approximately how many hours per week did you spend on repetitive manual tasks?
Q11
Long Text
Overall, how automated are your common operations tasks today?
Q12
Multiple Choice
Compared to 3 months ago, how has your median time to resolve incidents changed?
Q13
AI Interview
What are the biggest blockers to automating more of your operations work next quarter?
Q14
Multiple Choice
Approximately how large is your organization?
Q15
Multiple Choice
In the last 30 days, which were your main sources of toil? Select up to 5.
Q16
Long Text
How effective are your current tools for monitoring and alerting?
Q17
Multiple Choice
During your most significant incident in the last 30 days, what added the most toil?
Q18
Long Text
Based on your responses in this survey, please share any additional thoughts or feelings about toil, reliability, or tooling that we didn't cover.
Q19
Multiple Choice
Approximately how large is your SRE/Platform team?
Q20
Long Text
Rank the following by how disruptive they are to your focused engineering time (1 = most disruptive).
Q21
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How effective are your current tools for deployment and CI/CD?
Q22
Multiple Choice
Which region best describes your primary working time zone?
Q23
Long Text
How effective are your current tools for incident management and response?
Q24
Multiple Choice
What is your work location model?
Q25
Long Text
How effective are your current tools for infrastructure provisioning and configuration?
Q26
Long Text
How effective are your current tools for change management and approvals?
Q27
Long Text
Approximately how many manual steps did you automate or remove from runbooks in the last 30 days?
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