Mean Time To Detect (MTTD) - CI/CD Glossary Definition
Mean time to detect is the average time between when a failure starts and when monitoring or a human first notices it. It is the leading portion of total recovery time.
Why it dominates
An incident cannot be fixed until it is seen. Good SLIs and burn-rate alerts shrink MTTD, which directly lowers overall MTTR.
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