# Shutdown Latency

> The degree to which draining in-flight work before exit lengthens the time a shutdown takes.

Record: `lexicon:shutdown-latency`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Correctness Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/correctness-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-shutdown-latency

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Lifecycle Signals](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/lifecycle-signals.md) and before [Disk-Failure Survival](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/disk-failure-survival.md).

## Category

- [Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/self-healing-recovery-deployment-safety.md)

## In tension with

- [Graceful Shutdown](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/graceful-shutdown.md)
- [Graceful Shutdown / Shutdown Latency](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/graceful-shutdown-shutdown-latency.md)

## Linked from

- [Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-self-healing-recovery-deployment-safety.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)