Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) - CI/CD Glossary Definition
Mean time to recovery (MTTR) is the average time it takes to restore service after a production failure. It is the fourth DORA metric, and elite performers recover in under an hour.
Why it matters
MTTR rewards fast detection and fast remediation over trying to never fail. Automated rollback, good alerting, and self-healing infrastructure that retries transient failures all pull MTTR down.
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