DevOps & Cloud

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."

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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.