Every platform engineering team tracks deployment frequency and lead time. These are table stakes. The metrics that actually predict platform success are less obvious: cognitive load, time-to-first-deployment, and golden-path adoption rate.
If your developers need to understand Kubernetes internals, Terraform modules, and monitoring configuration to ship a feature, your platform has failed. The point is abstraction.
"A successful platform team makes itself invisible. Developers should think about business logic, not infrastructure."