To see the DevOps score, you must activate your GitLab instance's [Service Ping](../settings/usage_statistics.md#service-ping).
To see the DevOps score, you must activate your GitLab instance's [Service Ping](../settings/usage_statistics.md#service-ping). This is because DevOps Score is a comparative tool, so your score data must be centrally processed by GitLab Inc. first.
You can use the DevOps score to compare your DevOps status to other organizations.