Glossary

MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)

MTBF is the average amount of uptime between incidents — a measure of how often things break.

Mean Time Between Failures measures reliability frequency rather than recovery speed. You raise it by fixing root causes via postmortems instead of just restarting after each incident.

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