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Uptime, MTTR and MTBF

Type the uptime percent, the MTTR or the MTBF for each record of outages.

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About this interactive

Uptime is a grade: the time a system was up, divided by the time it should have been up. Planned maintenance windows are left out of both. A service that should run 24 hours and is down 6 scores 18 ÷ 24 = 75%. Mean means average. Mean time to recover (MTTR) averages how long each outage took to fix: outages of 30, 10 and 20 minutes give (30 + 10 + 20) ÷ 3 = 20 minutes. Mean time between failures (MTBF) averages how long the system runs between failures. The lesson notes that sources measure it two ways; these questions measure from the moment service is restored to the next failure, as most sources do. Runs of 8 and 4 hours give an MTBF of 6 hours. The lesson rounds the nines: 99.9% allows about 8.8 hours of downtime a year, and five nines about 5.3 minutes.

What you'll learn

Aligned to

CompTIA Security+
3.4 Explain the importance of resilience and recovery in security architecture.
5.2 Explain elements of the risk management process.

Key terms

Uptime
The amount of continuous time a network device or service has been running without interruption, often expressed as a percentage of total time available. High uptime percentages (such as 99.9%) indicate a reliable network, while planned and unplanned downtime reduces this figure.
Downtime
The period during which a system, service, or component is unavailable or non-operational; it is measured against uptime targets defined in service agreements.
Mean Time to Recover
MTTR
The average time taken to restore a system or service to normal operation after a failure or security incident, used as a key metric for measuring incident response effectiveness and system resilience.
Mean Time Between Failures
MTBF
A reliability metric giving the average running time from one failure of a component or system to the next, used in availability planning and security resilience design.

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