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Understand the terminology, acronyms, jargon, and phrases used by modern tech teams

MTTR

Mean Time to Recovery

The average time needed to restore service after a failure.

SRE & DevOpsAcronymincident managementintermediate

Plain English

How long recovery usually takes.

In context

MTTR summarizes recovery speed across incidents and depends on detection diagnosis mitigation and repair.

Example

“Automation reduced MTTR for failed deployments.”

When you'll hear this

  • incident review
  • reliability reporting
  • operations planning

Common misunderstanding

The acronym is also used for repair or resolution so teams should define it.

Also known as

mean time to recovery

Commonly used by

Site Reliability EngineerEngineering ManagerOperations

Related terms

IncidentRTO

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