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Failure burst

Under an adjacent-gap rule, a failure burst is a maximal sequence of event starts in which every consecutive gap is no greater than a specified window.

Related Observatory article: Failure burst on hesela.com

Ford et al. use this rule for node unavailability. A burst may span longer than its gap limit; a singleton is also a burst. Temporal grouping does not by itself establish a common cause. [1] State the event-selection, timing and boundary conventions before comparing counts.

Relations

related
failure-domain, failure-label, failure-operation-ticket

Citations

  1. Ford et al. Availability in Globally Distributed Storage Systems. OSDI 2010, section 4.1 and Figure 5. (accessed 2026-10-16)

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