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Failure label

A failure label is a recorded outcome assigned to an observation under an explicit rule defining which event counts as failure and when it occurs.

Related Observatory article: Failure label on hesela.com

Specify the event, counting unit and timestamp. Lu et al. use the operator's disk replacement decision after failed I/O and unsuccessful restart. [1] Narya instead targets customer-impacting host failures later attributed to hardware faults; a permanent component failure can occur later. [2]

Relations

related
prediction-horizon, temporal-validation, grouped-cross-validation, smart, right-censoring

Limitations

Citations

  1. Lu et al. Making Disk Failure Predictions SMARTer! FAST 2020, section 2.1, p. 153. (accessed 2026-10-14)
  2. Levy et al. Predictive and Adaptive Failure Mitigation to Avert Production Cloud VM Interruptions. OSDI 2020, section 4.3 and Figure 2, p. 1159. (accessed 2026-10-14)

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