Lexicon

Failure Detection

Kind: capability

Layer: Observability

Record: lexicon:failure-detection

Canonical: Lexicon

The ability to detect that a system has failed or degraded by watching its monitored signals.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Blind Operation and before Alert Fatigue.

Category

  • Observability / Auditability / Traceability

Enabled by

  • Monitoring

Linked from

  • Observability / Auditability / Traceability