Mean Time to Recovery
/miːn taɪm tə rɪˈkʌvəri/
Definition
MTTR — the average time from an incident starting to the service being restored, a key reliability metric.
Example in context
"Our MTTR dropped from 45 to 12 minutes after adding auto-rollback — faster detection and automated recovery."
Related terms
Practice this term
Master Mean Time to Recovery in context by working through exercises in the DevOps & Cloud module. You'll see the term used in real engineering scenarios with multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and matching drills.