Glossary

MTTD (Mean Time To Detect)

MTTD is the average time from when an incident begins to when your monitoring notices it.

Mean Time To Detect is the metric monitoring most directly controls. Polling every five minutes can add up to five minutes of pure detection lag to every incident; 1-second checks remove almost all of it.

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