Reliability

A measure of your workload's ability to provide functionality when desired by the user.

Measure your reliability

To improve reliability of a workload, first measure your current ability to provide functionality.

Measure reliability.

• Determine the interval you want to measure (hours/days/weeks/months/years).
• Use an external monitor to measure if your workload provides the functionality you want.
• Measure for the time interval.
• Determine the amount of past reliability data with which to compare your current results.
• Record your reliability for the length of time required.