Service & System Metrics

We strive to continually improve the services we deliver to the UCSC community by measuring and monitoring services to evaluate our performance.

This page provides key metrics based on commitments in published service level agreements. Metrics are updated quarterly.

We welcome your input on these metrics. If you have feedback, or would like further information about this page, please contact us via our feedback form.



First-Contact Response to Incidents and Service Requests

January-March 2013

Actual Performance

93.71%

Metric Target: 90%
response in less than
8 business hours

Jan-Mar 2013 Report (PDF)

Oct-Dec 2012 Report (PDF)

July-Sept 2012 Report (PDF)

Apr-June 2012 Report (PDF)

 

 

ITS has committed to respond to all service related requests within 8 business hours in the ITS and Campus Service Level Agreement (SLA). We responded within 8 business hours to 13,311 IT Request tickets within this quarterly period.

Resolution Metrics

January-March 2013

Actual Performance

94.77%

Metric Target: 80% of
tickets closed on time

Jan-Mar 2013 Report (PDF)

Oct-Dec 2012 Report (PDF)

July-Sept 2012 Report

Apr-June 2012 Report (PDF)

 

Resolution of help tickets is based on information from the IT Request ticket system. Hours are counted as clock hours, weekends excepted.

ITS Outage and Change Management Metrics

March 2013

Ratio of Unplanned to Total Outages: 20%

Ratio of Unplanned Outages due to failed changes to Total Outages: 0%

Top Root Causes of Unplanned Outages:
Vendor/External 8% of all outages

March 2013 Report (PDF)

February 2013 Report (PDF)

January 2013 Report (PDF)

December 2012 Report (PDF)

November 2012 Report (PDF)

October 2012 Report (PDF)

September 2012 Report (PDF)

August 2012 Report (PDF)

July 2012 Report (PDF)

June 2012 Report (PDF)

May 2012 Report (PDF)

April 2012 Report (PDF)

 

Outage metrics measure Planned vs. Unplanned Outages and their associated root causes; Change Management metric is the ratio unplanned outages caused by failed changes to total outages.

2012/13 Goals
  • Outages due to failed changes: ≤ 9 per quarter (~5%)

eCommons System Uptime

October-December 2012

Actual Performance

100%

Oct-Dec 2012 Report (PDF)

July-Sep 2012 Report (PDF)

April-June 2012 Report (PDF)

Jan-Mar 2011 Report (PDF)

 

For October through December 2012, eCommons reported 99.557% URL availability.

CruzNet Campus Coverage, Wireless Access Points and Total Capacity

October - December 2011

Campus Coverage
31%

Total number of Access Points
464

Maximum Possible Access Points
500

Oct-Dec 2011 Report (PDF)

July-Sept 2011 Report (PDF)

April-June 2011 Report (PDF)

Jan-March 2011 Report (PDF)

Oct-Dec 2010 Report (PDF)

July-Sept 2010 Report (PDF)

Apr-June 2010 Report (PDF)

The Campus Coverage percentage reflects interior coverage only. The 30% noted is based on a 2009 estimate that 1500 wireless access points (waps) would be needed to cover the interior or one wap per 3200 sq. ft.