Fault Tolerance Glossary Definition

Term Fault Tolerance
Definition

Fault Tolerance is a Cloud reliability or observability concept used to understand system behavior, measure service health, and recover from failures.

Fault Tolerance is a DevOps operations and reliability concept used to observe service behavior, respond to failures, and improve resilience over time.

Context & Usage

Operations and reliability teams use this concept when setting objectives, investigating incidents, improving resilience, and communicating service health.

Site Reliability Engineering and operations teams use this concept to measure service health, investigate incidents, and turn operational learning into improvement.

Related concepts include DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Observability and Incident Response.

Additional Resource: Google Site Reliability Engineering Book.

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